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noun

Conundrum 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."

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?"

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Etymology of 'Conundrum'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conundrum" Quotes from Famous Books

... remarked the little dog, in speaking to the tree, "Would you say that the heart of you is like the tail of me?" The tree gave the conundrum up. The pup, with wisdom dark, Explained the matter saying, "It ...

— The New Pun Book • Thomas A. Brown and Thomas Joseph Carey

... myself several times. It duz seem to me that there hain't a question a-comin' up before that Conference that is harder to tackle than this plasterin' and the conundrum that is up before us Jonesville wimmen how to raise 300 dollars out of nuthin', and to make peace in a meetin' house where anarky ...

— Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... complete his statement of the case he was politely asked if he would care to inter his talents in the Canadian Senate, and he suavely answered that such a thing might be a good way to solve the conundrum, even though it would make a thoroughly stupid ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... said, answering his thought; "but you never noticed the difference, although you often looked. I used to wonder how you could look so intelligently and see so little"—and she glanced down at herself, so unmistakably a woman now that he knew. She had been like a conundrum, the answer to which you would never have guessed for yourself, but you see it at once when you hear it, and then it seems so simple. She was rather inclined to speak to the Tenor in a half pitying, patronizing way, as to a weak creature easily taken in; but he had recovered ...

— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

... was no other opening for me, I immediately started for Springfield, where I met the young horse-trainer, Prof. De Voe, with whom I at once proceeded to form a co-partnership. He was a conundrum to me, from the very outset. A short, thick-set young man, not over eighteen years of age, with bushy, black hair, and dark eyes, a large Roman nose, and extremely small ...

— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston

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