puzzling
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]puzzling
- present participle and gerund of puzzle
Adjective
[edit]puzzling (comparative more puzzling, superlative most puzzling)
- Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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
[edit]difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing
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Noun
[edit]puzzling (plural puzzlings)
- Time spent pondering something confusing.