CONUNDRUM

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.

2.
n.

A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made. Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate on conundrums like that W. Black.


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