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Meaning of puzzlery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Something that contains puzzles;
    uncountable
  2. The process of solving puzzles.
    uncountable

Examples

“Want to try to unravel this bid of Talmud puzzlery yourself?”
“Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.”
“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.”
“I trust that the company manufacturing this particular brand of cigarettes — the last successful holdover from the Arabian Nights names of many of the earlier American brands, such as "Fatima," etc. — will not disagree that most of the 'blue' gags in impromptu magic and puzzlery that concern cigarettes center around the “Camel” brand.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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