| mother country | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the original country of colonists or settlers |
| 2. | another term for fatherland |
| 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. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |