Conundrum definition
An example of a conundrum is a challenging riddle to which you can't figure out the answer.
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Origin of conundrum
- Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- A word of unknown origin, probably coined in burlesque imitation of scholastic Latin, as "hocus-pocus" or "panjandrum".
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