| 单词 | to be in a puzzle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be in a puzzle 1. The state or condition of being puzzled; bewilderment, bafflement, confusion; perplexity as to how to act or decide; an instance of this. Now usually to be in a puzzle: to be in a state of bewilderment or confusion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun] mingingOE riddleOE cumbermentc1300 willa1325 encumbrancec1330 were1338 perplexitya1393 discomfiturea1425 cumbrancec1460 confuse1483 proplexity1487 perplexion?c1500 amazedness?1520 amazement1553 subversion1558 amaze?1560 perplexednessa1586 confusedness1587 puzzle1599 confusion1600 mizmaze1604 discomfita1616 embarras1627 obfuscation1628 mystery1629 confoundedness1641 puzzledness1662 confuseness1710 puzzlement1731 puzzledom1748 embarrassment1751 puzzleation1767 bepuzzlement1806 conjecture1815 mystification1817 bewilderment1819 perplexment1826 fuddle1827 wilderment1830 discomforture1832 head-scratching1832 baffle1843 posement1850 muddlement1857 turbidity1868 fogging1878 bemuddlement1884 harl1889 befuddlement1905 turbidness1906 wuzziness1942 perplexability1999 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. I Swounds what a pussell am I in this night. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 40 While they are in the pussle of busines they haue no time to tend their health. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxvii. 85 Beyond them, wee meete with nothing but the puzzle of the soule, and the dazle of the minds dimme eyes. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 59 Later Philosophers were at a great puzzle about it. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vi. 104 The Puzzle and Obscurity..from arguing upon so absurd a Supposition as That of universal Necessity. 1767 G. White Let. 4 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 29 Linnæus seems to be in a puzzle about his mus amphibius. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. iii. 66 She stopt, felt herself getting into a puzzle, and could not be prevailed on to add another word. View more context for this quotation 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford viii How Lady Arley was addressed, she could not remember... ‘I never thought of it before; but, now you have named it, I am all in a puzzle.’ 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma v. 135 The result would be..utter puzzle and bewilderment. 1925 Times 5 Nov. 12/2 Mr. Raven Hill shows us..P.C. Baldwin scratching his head in a puzzle. 1990 Fast Forward 28 Mar. 29/3 Yep, now you can get in a puzzle over your favourite pop stars. 2003 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) (Nexis) 16 Nov. I have no clue..I'm still in a puzzle as to who is doing what, where. < as lemmas |
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