quandary

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  1. noun A state of uncertainty or perplexity. See Synonyms at predicament.

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  • Jilseponie found herself in quite a quandary, then. —  ASCENDANCE
  • This quandary is all too familiar to multi-channel retailers of any size or industry. —  StraightUpSearch
  • Now, the quandary is - knowing all this India is hell bent on supporting the Maoists and SPA. —  United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
  • Now, the quandary is - knowing all this India is hell bent on supporting Maoist and SPA. —  United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
  • Real existential pondering or the internal creation of meaning within herself were troubles she did not need to ponder Sometimes she doubted herself and wondered whether motion had become an ersatz; and this quandary was as pesky as a fly trying to land on the oils of her shiny nose. —  Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Origin unknown; perhaps a dial. corruption (simulating a word of Latin origin with suffix -ary) of dial. wandreth, evil, plight, peril, adversity, difficulty: see wandreth. The change of initial w- to wh- (hw-) occurs in some dialectal forms, e. g. in whant, a frequently heard pron. of want (as, I don't whant it). Medial w often suffers dialectal change to qu (as in squete for sweet), and instances of the change of wh- to qu- are numerous (Scots qua, quha, for who, quhar for where, etc.). The notion that quandary comes from French qu'en dirai-je, ‘what shall I say of it,’ is absurd.
  2. from quandary, n.
 

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