Pysma (pys’-ma): The asking of multiple questions successively (which would together require a complex reply). A rhetorical use of the question.
Until I get the GPS up and running again, let’s just say we’re slightly lost in the woods.
Calm down fellow hikers! We’ll be ok. What kind of amateur trailblazer do you think I am? Do you really think I don’t know what I’m doing? Do you think I purposely got us lost?
Ha!
There, I’ve changed the GPS’s batteries and we’re good to go. Off to Diamond Lake! Step lively, intrepid hikers!
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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