“puzzle、headed”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

puzzle-headed

释义

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’.

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