carriwitchet
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prettygoodwordcarriwitchet (kair-ee-WICH-et) - n., a conundrum, a nonsensical question or pun.
Also spelled carwhichet. Not to be confused with a koan, though what the sound of one hand clapping might be both. Origin unknown, though a humorous alteration of catechism has been proposed, and possibly coined by Ben Jonson in Bartholomew Fayre (from 1614). Not seeing it though.
---L.
Also spelled carwhichet. Not to be confused with a koan, though what the sound of one hand clapping might be both. Origin unknown, though a humorous alteration of catechism has been proposed, and possibly coined by Ben Jonson in Bartholomew Fayre (from 1614). Not seeing it though.
---L.
