1. puzzle - Noun
2. puzzle - Verb
Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
To make intricate; to entangle.
To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
To be bewildered, or perplexed.
To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLet schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. Oliver Goldsmith
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. Lewis Carroll
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together. Elizabeth Hardwick
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design. Helen Keller
It would puzzle even Apollo to understand it. Latin Proverb
Every clown can find fault, though it would puzzle him to do better. German Proverb