| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| 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. |
| hard line | |
| —n | |
| a. an uncompromising course or policy | |
| b. hardline (as modifier): a hardline policy | |
| hard'liner | |
| —n | |