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Webster 1828 Edition


Puzzling

PUZ'ZLING

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ppr.
Perplexing; embarrassing; bewildering.

Definition 2024


puzzling

puzzling

English

Verb

puzzling

  1. present participle of puzzle

Adjective

puzzling (comparative more puzzling, superlative most puzzling)

  1. Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
      Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. [] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes. [] But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.

Translations

Noun

puzzling (plural puzzlings)

  1. Time spent pondering something confusing.