a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a brook, especially a swiftly running stream with steep banks.
Origin: 1250–1300; Middle English becc < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse bekkr; akin to Old English bece,Dutch beek,German Bach brook, MIr bual flowing water < Indo-European *bhog-lā
late 14c., "mute signal," from bekken (v.), var. of becnan "to beckon" (see beckon). Transferred sense of "slightest indication of will" is from late 15c.