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bewilderment
English
Etymology
From bewilder +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??w?ld?m?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /b??w?ld??m?nt/
Noun
bewilderment (plural bewilderments)
- The state of being bewildered.
- A confusing or perplexing situation.
Translations
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riddle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???d?l/
- Rhymes: -?d?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English r?dels, r?delse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *r?disl? (“counsel, conjecture”). Analyzable as rede (“advice”) +? -le. Akin to Old English r?dan (“to read, advise, interpret”).
Noun
riddle (plural riddles)
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- Synonyms: enigma, conundrum, brain-teaser
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
Derived terms
- riddler
Related terms
- a riddle wrapped up in an enigma
- riddle stick
Translations
Verb
riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”), from Old English hriddel (“sieve”), alteration of earlier hridder, hr?der, from Proto-Germanic *hr?dr?, *hr?dr? (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *hrid- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Akin to German Reiter (“sieve”), Old Norse hreinn (“pure, clean”), Old High German hreini (“pure, clean”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (hrains, “clean, pure”). More at rinse.
Noun
riddle (plural riddles)
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Translations
Verb
riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)
- To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English riddel, ridel, redel, rudel, from Old French ridel ("a plaited stuff; curtain"; > Medieval Latin ridellus), from rider (“to wrinkle”), from Old High German r?dan (“to turn; wrap; twist; wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *wr?þan? (“to turn; wind”). More at writhe. Doublet of rideau.
Noun
riddle (plural riddles)
- (obsolete) A curtain; bed-curtain
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south
Etymology 4
From Middle English ridlen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
riddle (third-person singular simple present riddles, present participle riddling, simple past and past participle riddled)
- (transitive, obsolete) To plait
Further reading
- riddle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- riddle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- dreidl, lidder
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