| nobiliary particle | |
| —n | |
| a preposition, such as French de or German von, occurring as part of a title or surname: Marquis de Sade | |
| 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. |