"The Economist" cites this word in its obituary of the philosopher Willard Quine:

He would have had a fondness for the quinombrom, an old word for conundrum, defined in James Howell's "Lexicon Tetraglotton" of 1660: "You will judge, perhaps, that the author hath some strange freaks, or quinombroms, in his noddle."


Worth a revival?

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