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▪ I. ˈpuzzling, vbl. n.
[f. puzzle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb puzzle in its various senses.
1598Barret Theor. Warres i. 6 He will neuer ranke them aright without helpe: and (God knoweth) with what puzzeling and toyle. 1874Blackie Self-cult. 28 You can find out for yourself by a little puzzling why the three angles of a triangle..must be equal to two right angles. 1907Athenæum 1 June 662/1 The puzzling of the Russians by rumour that the turning-flank-march of the Japanese was first by the Russian left, then by the Russian right.
▪ II. ˈpuzzling, ppl. a.
[f. puzzle v. + -ing2.]
1. Bewildering, confusing, perplexing; that puzzles one to solve or answer.
1666Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. i. Wks. 1772 III. 50 A more puzzling question it may be to some. 1705Berkeley Comm.-pl. Bk. Wks. 1871 IV. 428 The grand puzzling question, whether I sleep or wake? 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 60 The various Turnings..of this Labyrinth, render it extremely intricate and puzzling. 1855Kingsley Heroes, Argonauts 176 This is a puzzling matter. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 204 The summit of the mountain is most puzzling and dangerous.
2. Bewildering oneself; laboriously trying to puzzle something out.
1692R. L'Estrange Fables liii, The Servant, says he, is a Puzzling Fool that heeds nothing. 1735Somerville Chase ii. 202 The puzzling Pack unravel Wile by Wile, Maze within Maze. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 96 Certain precise and puzzling minds.
Hence ˈpuzzlingly adv., in a way that puzzles one; ˈpuzzlingness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Puzzlingness, perplexedness, embarrassing Quality. 1881M. A. Lewis Two Pretty G. III. 87 A puzzlingly unamiable trait in her friend's character. 1894Naturalist 58 Shade-grown forms..puzzlingly simulated the orange-flowered Plancheon's furze. |