Usually means: Causing confusion through complex challenges.
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  1. puzzling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. puzzling: Merriam-Webster
  3. puzzling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. puzzling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. puzzling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Puzzling, puzzling: Wordnik
  7. puzzling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. puzzling: Wiktionary
  9. puzzling: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Puzzling, puzzling: Dictionary.com
  11. puzzling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Puzzling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. puzzling: Rhymezone
  14. Puzzling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. puzzling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. puzzling: FreeDictionary.org
  17. puzzling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. puzzling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puzzling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puzzling: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puzzling: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Puzzling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See puzzle as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
noun:  Time spent pondering something confusing.

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