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[arethinn]

Last Friday the word "puzzleologist" came up at our local, and I wondered aloud what a fully-Greek-rooted word with the same meaning would be, since "puzzle" didn't sound Greek. Through one turn of the internet and another (during which we found that "puzzle" is "of uncertain origin") we were led to the word metagrobologist, which I just think is an awesome word. I don't know if "all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized" that I'm seeing attributed here and there to the Wall Street Journal is actually a true quote, but it sure sounds cool.

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[premchaia_pre4]

I can't seem to find a source for the root involved! Is it attested somewhere I'd be able to see? (What'd be the Greek form proper, for that matter?)

[arethinn]

Sorry, wasn't meaning to say that was necessarily Greek (although "meta" is) - just providing the context for why I was mentioning the word at all. I can't now find the page that a friend was showing me on his phone.