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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conundrum" Quotes from Famous Books

... of girls and men out for their holiday like baked ice-cream?" asked Dick. "That isn't a conundrum; ...

— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter

... errors of taste. He might have spared many of the details of the bath scene, which, for the rest, tallies exactly with Mr. Thackeray's account of the same process. This little man with all his long letters remains as much a conundrum to me as ever. Your account of the domestic joys at Hunsworth amused me much. The good folks seem very happy—long may they continue so! It somewhat cheers me to know that such happiness does exist on the earth. Return Mr. Taylor's letter when you have read it. With love to your mother,—I ...

— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

... Scriptural proofs. But this polemical motive can hardly have induced him to becloud an obvious text and invent interpretations which never occurred to any other ecclesiastical writer before or after his time. The conundrum can only be solved by the assumption that Augustine believed in a plurality of literal senses in the Bible and held that over and above (or notwithstanding) the sensus obvius every exegete is free to read as much truth into any given passage as possible, and that such interpretation lay within ...

— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle

... a letter from Tyler, Texas, propounding the following fateful conundrum: "Can Woman Hypnotize Man?" My correspondent adds that "by answering, the ICONOCLAST will confer a favor on the people of Tyler, decide a bet ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... said. "Razors have moods, and are known to sulk. But science has solved the conundrum of their antics. It has been discovered that whetting changes the location of the molecules of metal, that there is frequently left what is not a perfect edge after the supposed sharpening, but that, given time, the molecules will readjust themselves, and the edge return. My dear, ...

— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo

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