| Main Entry: | thesis statement |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | an explanation of the topic or purpose of a research paper |
| 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. |