Pronounced: VOH-tihv, adj
Notes: Not what I thought
Yesterday’s word
The word conundrum means
- an intricate and difficult problem
- a question or problem having only a conjectural answer
- a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
According to my reference data, our word has been spelled “conimbrum”, “quonundrum”, “conucrum”, and “quadundrum.” I knew the first definition only. The origin of our word is not known for sure, but one theory is that it was a parody of Latin by students at Oxford University.
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