| pet name | |
noun | |
| a name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix); "'Billy' is a hypocorism for 'William'" |
| 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. |