puzzler
part of speech
noun (a puzzler, puzzlers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A question, problem or mystery that is hard to understand or solve: «That riddle is a real puzzler.» tree →
2) A person who enjoys doing puzzles, like crosswords or sudoku. tree →
3) A puzzler can also be a person who is hard to understand or figure out. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths and olympiad lessons a puzzler is a tricky problem that needs clever thinking; in everyday life it is anything that confuses you; in stories a mystery can be «a puzzler» for the detective. Phrases: «a real puzzler», «a bit of a puzzler», «keen puzzler».
examples
- Here's a puzzler: what has keys but can't open locks? tree →
- Question 10 on the maths test was a real puzzler. tree →
- Why the cat kept hiding the socks was a puzzler. tree →
- Grandma is a keen puzzler who does the crossword every day. tree →
- The missing biscuits were a puzzler until we found crumbs on the dog. tree →
- The teacher gives us a Friday puzzler to solve in pairs. tree →
- He is a puzzler, take him how you will." tree →
note
Countable: puzzler, puzzlers. Informal and friendly. Related: puzzle (noun and verb), puzzled (confused), puzzling (confusing). The answer to the keys riddle is «a piano».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «puzzler» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.