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.
1570s, "self-reliant, sure of oneself," from L. confidentem "firmly trusting, reliant, self-confident, bold, daring," prp. of confidere (see confidence). Related: Confidently (1590s).