puzzle
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
puzzle/ˈpʌzl/
▶verb
- 1 confuse (someone) on account of being difficult to understand.
- 2 think hard about something difficult to understand.
- 1 a game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge.
- 2 a puzzling person or thing.
– derivatives
puzzlement noun,
puzzler noun,
puzzling adjective,
puzzlingly adverb.
puzzlement noun,
puzzler noun,
puzzling adjective,
puzzlingly adverb.
– origin C16: of unknown origin.
'puzzle' also found in these Oxford entries:
acrostic
- araucaria
- brain-teaser
- bunya
- Chile pine
- Chinese puzzle
- crossword
- fog
- jigsaw
- kakuro
- maze
- monkey puzzle
- rebus
- Rubik's cube
- solution
- stump
- sudoku
- tangram
- unravel
- wordsearch
- word square
