conundrumn.

Brit.

/kəˈnʌndrəm/, U.S.

/kəˈnəndrəm/

Forms: Also 1600s conimbrum, quonundrum, quinombrom, 1700s ( conuncrum), quadundrum, cunnundrum, ( connunder).

Etymology: Origin lost: in 1645 (sense 3) referred to as an Oxford term; possibly originating in some university joke, or as a parody of some Latin term of the schools, which would agree with its unfixed form in 17–18th cent. It is doubtful whether Nash's use (sense 1) is the original.

†1. Applied abusively to a person. (? Pedant, crotchet-monger, or ninny.) Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused

warlockOE

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mother1955

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effer1961

salaud1962

gunk1964

scunge1967

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4^v So will I..driue him [sc. Gabriel Harvey] to confesse himselfe a Conundrum, who now thinks he hath learning inough to proue the saluation of Lucifer.

†2. A whim, crotchet, maggot, conceit. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim

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whim1697

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kink1803

fizgig1824

fad1834

whimmery1837

fantod1839

brain crack1853

whimsy-whamsy1871

tic1896

tick1900

1607 B. Jonson Volpone v. xi. sig. N2^v I must ha' my Crotchets! And my Conundrums !

1624 P. Massinger Bond-man ii. iii. sig. E3^v I begin To haue strange Conundrums in my head.

a1642 W. Bedell in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus (1651) 61 These conimbrums, whether Reall or Nominall, went downe with Erasmus like chopt hay.

1659 J. Howell Some Prov. French Toung Let. French Prov. sig. A4, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) You will judge perhaps, that the Author hath some strange freaks, or quinombroms in his noddle.

1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance ii. ii. 26 I hope he'll chain her up—the Gad Bee's in his Qunnundrum.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Conundrums, Whimms, Maggots, and such like.

1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example iv. i You don't know her; she has more Conuncrums in her Head than a Fencer.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 140 My Blood she advances, With Twenty Quadundrums, and Fifty Five Fancies.

†3. A pun or wordplay depending on similarity of sound in words of different meaning. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun

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paronomasy1592

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jeu de mots1823

calembour1830

Tom Swifty1963

paronym1982

1645 Kingdom's Weekly Post 16 Dec. 76 This is the man who would have his device alwayes in his sermons, which in Oxford they then called conundrums. For an instance..Now all House is turned into an Alehouse, and a pair of dice is made a Paradice, was it thus in the days of Noah? Ah no!

a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 94 Pun and conundrum pass with them for wit.

1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vii. 6 Such frothy Quibbles and Cunnunders.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 61. ¶2 A Clinch, or a Conundrum.

1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1741) xxxix. 204 Plain sense was esteem'd nonsense from the pulpit, which rung with ambiguities and double meanings; the poor sinner was mightily awaken'd to his duty by a pretty pun, and oftentimes owed his salvation to a quibble or a conundrum.

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Conundrum, a quaint humourous Expression, Word, or Sentence.

1755–73 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Conundrum, a low jest; a quibble; a mean conceit: a cant word.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. vi. 126 Zounds, sir, do not think to put any of your conundrums upon me.

a. A riddle in the form of a question the answer to which involves a pun or play on words: called in 1769 conundrumical question.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun]

riddleOE

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brain-twister1878

skull-buster1926

mind-bender1968

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles

riddleOE

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lipogram1711

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logogram1820

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word square1867

verbarian1872

jumble-letters1899

word ladder1928

Double-Crostic1934

word search1957

hangman1961

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun > riddle involving pun

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carwidgeona1627

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1790 J. Wolcot Elegy to Apollo in Wks. (1812) II. 278 The Riddle and Conundrum-mongers cry Pshaw!

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 62 Exhausting your faculties..in vain endeavours to guess at a..conundrum.

b. Any puzzling question or problem; an enigmatical statement.

1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV xxi. 15 The whole together is what I could wish To serve in this conundrum of a dish.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. iv. vii. 225 ‘You speak in conundrums,’ said Morley; ‘I wish I could guess them.’

1886 J. A. Froude Oceana ii. 32 The stars..will be after Adam's race has ceased to perplex itself with metaphysical conundrums.

5. A thing that one is puzzled to name, a ‘what-d'ye-call-it’. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown

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what-call-ye-him1473

who knows what?1548

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thingy1927

doodah1928

doofer1937

hootenanny1940

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gizmo1943

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oobyjiver1963

whatsisface1967

oojamaflip1970

what's-her-face1980

1817 W. Scott Let. 8 June (1933) IV. 464 We are attempting no castellated conundrums to rival those Lord Napier used to have executed in Sugar.

1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. xii. 396 In her plain cap, plain kerchief, and plaited conundrums, by which the female Friends are distinguished.

Compounds

conundrum-game, conundrum-making, conundrum-monger (see 4), conundrum-party.

1716 M. Davies Diss. Author & Oecon. Lat. Drama 32 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Mr. Wood..makes a Conundrum-Game with poor Cornaro's Daughter Su.

1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 20. 154 Conundrum parties.

1794 W. Roberts Looker-on (new ed.) I. 281 Leger-de-main, conundrum-making, and punning.

Derivatives

† coˈnundrumed adj. Obsolete grown crotchety, slightly crazed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad

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Fifish1821

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tetched1930

as daft (mad, etc.) as a brush1932

1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy ii. 31 There's difference betweene staring and starke mad. You are but whymsed, yet crotchetted, conundroun'd, or so.

† conunˈdrumical adj. Obsolete whimsical, fantastic, crotchety; also, of the nature of a conundrum (sense 4).

ΘΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical

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fantastic-

1743 London Mag. 36 Of all the conundrumical Inconsistencies, and incoherent Images that ever arose from a sick Stomach and a weak Head.

1769 Town & Country Mag. 1 Sept. 462/2 Answers to Mr. Wags connundrumical questions.

coˈnundrumize v. (intransitive) to make conundrums.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > be witty with words [verb (intransitive)] > pun > in conundrums

conundrumize1836

1836 New Monthly Mag. 48 420 The conundrumizing of the said Billy..set everybody making conundrums.

1839 L. Blanchard in New Monthly Mag. 56 519 It was from you that he had the joke first, while you were conundrumizing for want of thought.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	conundrum
释义	conundrumn. Brit. /kəˈnʌndrəm/, U.S. /kəˈnəndrəm/ Forms: Also 1600s conimbrum, quonundrum, quinombrom, 1700s ( conuncrum), quadundrum, cunnundrum, ( connunder). Etymology: Origin lost: in 1645 (sense 3) referred to as an Oxford term; possibly originating in some university joke, or as a parody of some Latin term of the schools, which would agree with its unfixed form in 17–18th cent. It is doubtful whether Nash's use (sense 1) is the original. †1. Applied abusively to a person. (? Pedant, crotchet-monger, or ninny.) Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused warlockOE swinec1175 beastc1225 wolf's-fista1300 avetrolc1300 congeonc1300 dirtc1300 slimec1315 snipec1325 lurdanc1330 misbegetc1330 sorrowa1350 shrew1362 jordan1377 wirlingc1390 frog?a1400 warianglea1400 wretcha1400 horcop14.. turdc1400 callet1415 lotterela1450 paddock?a1475 souter1478 chuff?a1500 langbain?c1500 cockatrice1508 sow1508 spink1508 wilrone1508 rook?a1513 streaker?a1513 dirt-dauber?1518 marmoset1523 babiona1529 poll-hatcheta1529 bear-wolf1542 misbegotten1546 pig1546 excrement1561 mamzer1562 chuff-cat1563 varlet1566 toada1568 mandrake1568 spider1568 rat1571 bull-beef1573 mole-catcher1573 suppository1573 curtal1578 spider-catcher1579 mongrela1585 roita1585 stickdirta1585 dogfish1589 Poor John1589 dog's facec1590 tar-boxa1592 baboon1592 pot-hunter1592 venom1592 porcupine1594 lick-fingers1595 mouldychaps1595 tripe1595 conundrum1596 fat-guts1598 thornback1599 land-rat1600 midriff1600 stinkardc1600 Tartar1600 tumbril1601 lobster1602 pilcher1602 windfucker?1602 stinker1607 hog rubber1611 shad1612 splay-foot1612 tim1612 whit1612 verdugo1616 renegado1622 fish-facea1625 flea-trapa1625 hound's head1633 mulligrub1633 nightmare1633 toad's-guts1634 bitch-baby1638 shagamuffin1642 shit-breech1648 shitabed1653 snite1653 pissabed1672 bastard1675 swab1687 tar-barrel1695 runt1699 fat-face1740 shit-sack1769 vagabond1842 shick-shack1847 soor1848 b1851 stink-pot1854 molie1871 pig-dog1871 schweinhund1871 wind-sucker1880 fucker1893 cocksucker1894 wart1896 so-and-so1897 swine-hound1899 motherfucker1918 S.O.B.1918 twat1922 mong1926 mucker1929 basket1936 cowson1936 zombie1936 meatball1937 shower1943 chickenshit1945 mugger1945 motherferyer1946 hooer1952 morpion1954 mother1955 mother-raper1959 louser1960 effer1961 salaud1962 gunk1964 scunge1967 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4^v So will I..driue him [sc. Gabriel Harvey] to confesse himselfe a Conundrum, who now thinks he hath learning inough to proue the saluation of Lucifer. †2. A whim, crotchet, maggot, conceit. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim fantasya1450 wantonness1531 humour1533 worm?a1534 will1542 toy?1545 whey-worm1548 wild worm1548 freak1563 crotchet1573 fancy1579 whim-wham1580 whirligig1589 caper1592 megrim1593 spleen1594 kicksey-winsey1599 fegary1600 humorousness1604 curiosity1605 conundrum1607 whimsy1607 windmill1612 buzza1616 capriccioa1616 quirka1616 flama1625 maggota1625 fantasticality1631 capruch1634 gimcrack1639 whimseycado1654 caprich1656 excursion1662 frisk1665 caprice1673 fita1680 grub1681 fantasque1697 whim1697 frolic1711 flight1717 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 maddock1787 kink1803 fizgig1824 fad1834 whimmery1837 fantod1839 brain crack1853 whimsy-whamsy1871 tic1896 tick1900 1607 B. Jonson Volpone v. xi. sig. N2^v I must ha' my Crotchets! And my Conundrums ! View more context for this quotation 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man ii. iii. sig. E3^v I begin To haue strange Conundrums in my head. a1642 W. Bedell in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus (1651) 61 These conimbrums, whether Reall or Nominall, went downe with Erasmus like chopt hay. 1659 J. Howell Some Prov. French Toung Let. French Prov. sig. A4, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) You will judge perhaps, that the Author hath some strange freaks, or quinombroms in his noddle. 1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance ii. ii. 26 I hope he'll chain her up—the Gad Bee's in his Qunnundrum. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Conundrums, Whimms, Maggots, and such like. 1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example iv. i You don't know her; she has more Conuncrums in her Head than a Fencer. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 140 My Blood she advances, With Twenty Quadundrums, and Fifty Five Fancies. †3. A pun or wordplay depending on similarity of sound in words of different meaning. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun allusion1550 nick1561 paronomasia1577 paronomasy1592 quiblin1605 quibblea1627 quiblet1627 clinch1629 quibbling1633 clink1634 clench1638 pun1644 conundrum1645 whim1652 pundigrion1673 jeu de mots1823 calembour1830 Tom Swifty1963 paronym1982 1645 Kingdom's Weekly Post 16 Dec. 76 This is the man who would have his device alwayes in his sermons, which in Oxford they then called conundrums. For an instance..Now all House is turned into an Alehouse, and a pair of dice is made a Paradice, was it thus in the days of Noah? Ah no! a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 94 Pun and conundrum pass with them for wit. 1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vii. 6 Such frothy Quibbles and Cunnunders. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 61. ¶2 A Clinch, or a Conundrum. 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1741) xxxix. 204 Plain sense was esteem'd nonsense from the pulpit, which rung with ambiguities and double meanings; the poor sinner was mightily awaken'd to his duty by a pretty pun, and oftentimes owed his salvation to a quibble or a conundrum. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Conundrum, a quaint humourous Expression, Word, or Sentence. 1755–73 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Conundrum, a low jest; a quibble; a mean conceit: a cant word. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. vi. 126 Zounds, sir, do not think to put any of your conundrums upon me. 4. a. A riddle in the form of a question the answer to which involves a pun or play on words: called in 1769 conundrumical question. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] riddleOE purposec1350 problema1382 propositiona1382 conclusion1393 divinailc1430 opposal?a1439 riddling?c1475 wordc1480 why1532 dark, hard sentence1535 enigma1539 remblere1599 puzzlement1646 gripha1652 puzzler1651 riddlemy riddlemy1652 puzzle1655 crux1718 teaser1759 puzzleation1767 conundrum1790 poser1793 riddle-me-ree1805 stumper1807 tickler1825 sticker1849 brain-teaser1850 grueller1856 question mark1870 brain-twister1878 skull-buster1926 mind-bender1968 society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles riddleOE logogriph1598 rebus1605 name-device1631 telesticha1637 lipogram1711 charade1776 conundrum1790 logogram1820 anagrams?1860 acrostic1861 metagram1867 word square1867 verbarian1872 jumble-letters1899 word ladder1928 Double-Crostic1934 word search1957 hangman1961 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [noun] > play on words, pun > riddle involving pun carriwitchet1623 carwidgeona1627 carawimple1672 conundrum1790 1790 J. Wolcot Elegy to Apollo in Wks. (1812) II. 278 The Riddle and Conundrum-mongers cry Pshaw! 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 62 Exhausting your faculties..in vain endeavours to guess at a..conundrum. b. Any puzzling question or problem; an enigmatical statement. Π 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV xxi. 15 The whole together is what I could wish To serve in this conundrum of a dish. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. iv. vii. 225 ‘You speak in conundrums,’ said Morley; ‘I wish I could guess them.’ 1886 J. A. Froude Oceana ii. 32 The stars..will be after Adam's race has ceased to perplex itself with metaphysical conundrums. 5. A thing that one is puzzled to name, a ‘what-d'ye-call-it’. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown swilk and swilkc1175 thinga1325 what-call-ye-him1473 who knows what?1548 I don't know (also I know not, I wot not) what1568 God (also (the) Lord) knows (also wot) what1569 washical1575 what-d'ye-call-'em1593 so-and-so1596 whiblin1604 so-fortha1616 jiggumboba1625 know-not-whata1642 thingum1652 thingum-thangum1684 what's-his-name1697 something or other1706 thingummy1737 thingamabob1751 something1764 what's-her-name1816 conundrum1817 thingamerry1819 thingamajig1824 somebody1825 what's-its-name1839 whangdoodle1852 thingummytite1865 dingus1866 what-not1876 whatsita1882 gilguy1883 gadget1886 dingbat1894 doohickey1914 oojah1917 oojah capivvy1917 oojiboo1918 doodad1920 tiddlypush1923 whosis1923 thingy1927 doodah1928 doofer1937 hootenanny1940 whatchamacallit1942 gizmo1943 frammis1948 whosit1948 whifflow1961 oobyjiver1963 whatsisface1967 oojamaflip1970 what's-her-face1980 1817 W. Scott Let. 8 June (1933) IV. 464 We are attempting no castellated conundrums to rival those Lord Napier used to have executed in Sugar. 1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. xii. 396 In her plain cap, plain kerchief, and plaited conundrums, by which the female Friends are distinguished. Compounds conundrum-game, conundrum-making, conundrum-monger (see 4), conundrum-party. Π 1716 M. Davies Diss. Author & Oecon. Lat. Drama 32 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Mr. Wood..makes a Conundrum-Game with poor Cornaro's Daughter Su. 1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 20. 154 Conundrum parties. 1794 W. Roberts Looker-on (new ed.) I. 281 Leger-de-main, conundrum-making, and punning. Derivatives † coˈnundrumed adj. Obsolete grown crotchety, slightly crazed. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad maddish1573 skyred1581 cracked1610 conundrumed1629 touchy-headed1666 touched1672 half-witted1712 maddy1719 Fifish1821 cracky1850 not all there1864 mattoid1891 tetched1930 as daft (mad, etc.) as a brush1932 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy ii. 31 There's difference betweene staring and starke mad. You are but whymsed, yet crotchetted, conundroun'd, or so. † conunˈdrumical adj. Obsolete whimsical, fantastic, crotchety; also, of the nature of a conundrum (sense 4). ΘΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- 1743 London Mag. 36 Of all the conundrumical Inconsistencies, and incoherent Images that ever arose from a sick Stomach and a weak Head. 1769 Town & Country Mag. 1 Sept. 462/2 Answers to Mr. Wags connundrumical questions. coˈnundrumize v. (intransitive) to make conundrums. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > be witty with words [verb (intransitive)] > pun > in conundrums conundrumize1836 1836 New Monthly Mag. 48 420 The conundrumizing of the said Billy..set everybody making conundrums. 1839 L. Blanchard in New Monthly Mag. 56 519 It was from you that he had the joke first, while you were conundrumizing for want of thought. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1596
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