| earth mother | |
| —n | |
| 1. | in various mythologies |
| a. a female goddess considered as the source of fertility and life | |
| b. the earth personified | |
| 2. | informal a sensual or fecund woman |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| 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. |