• Puzzling

    Verb

    1. Present participle of puzzle

    Full definition of puzzling

    Adjective

    puzzling

    1. Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
      • 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 2, 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.

    Noun

    puzzling

    (plural puzzlings)
    1. Time spent pondering something confusing.
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