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ˈpuzzle-ˌheaded, a.
[f. puzzle n., or put for puzzled + head n.1 + -ed2.]
Having a puzzled head; having confused ideas.
a1784Johnson in Boswell, Mattaire..seems to have been a puzzle-headed man, with a large share of scholarship, but with little geometry or logick in his head. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 465 He [Harley] was really a dull puzzle-headed man. 1906Outlook 14 July 40/1 A singularly puzzle-headed sentimentalism.
Hence puzzleˈheadedness; so also ˈpuzzlehead, a puzzle-headed person.
1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne v, To survey the flames with open eyes of dull puzzleheadedness. a1884M. Pattison Mem. v. (1885) 167 This anomaly can only be accounted for by a certain puzzle-headedness on the part of the Professor. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere xli, ‘They don't see it in that light themselves’... ‘No,..because most men are puzzleheads’. |