See also:

• CONUNDRUM (a word of unknown origin, probably coined in burlesque imitation of scholastic Latin, as "hocus-pocus" or '" panjandrum ")

CONUNDRUM (a word of unknown origin, probably coined in See also:

• BURLESQUE (Ital. burlesco, from burla, a joke, fun, playful trick)

burlesque See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of scholastic Latin, as "See also:

• HOCUS

hocus-pocus" or '" panjandrum ")  , originally a See also:

• TERM

term meaning whim, See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy or ridiculous See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea;. later applied to a See also:

• PUN

pun or See also:

• PLAY

play upon words, and thus, in its usual sense, to a particular See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of riddle in which the See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer depends on a pun . In a' transferred sense the word is also used of any puzzling question or difficulty .