Pronounced: KAZZ-bah, noun
Notes: This word is sometimes capitalized
Yesterday’s word
A rebus is “a representative of a word or phrase using pictures, symbols, letters, etc”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
I enjoy rebus puzzles, but when seeing rebus with the word “puzzle”, I couldn’t think what it meant, but it came back when I saw the definition. Our word comes from the Latin word rebus (by things), which came from res (thing).
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