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Webster 1913 Edition
Conundrum
Co-nun′drum
,Noun.
[Origin unknown.]
1.
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.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Conundrum
CONUNDRUM
,Noun.