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puzzlery

noun

Etymology

From puzzle + -ry.

  1. inherited from puslian — “to pick out the best bits, carefully select, cull”
  2. suffixed as puzzlery — “puzzle + ry”

Definitions

  1. Something that contains puzzles

    Something that contains puzzles;

    • Want to try to unravel this bid of Talmud puzzlery yourself?

  2. The process of solving puzzles.

    • The rules of this game are of course a little more complicated than those of jigsaw puzzlery.
    • Personally, I enjoy the challenge of this jig-saw puzzlery but oh, how I long for a few neat clerihews of four or five lines, some vivid haikus with their seventeen syllables, or a tiny one verse gem.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for puzzlery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA