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puzzlist

noun

Etymology

From puzzle + -ist.

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

Definitions

  1. One who enjoys creating or solving puzzles

    One who enjoys creating or solving puzzles; a puzzle aficionado.

    • "Sam Loyd: America's Greatest Puzzlist" [chapter title]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for puzzlist. 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