[f. BAFFLE v. + -ING1.]
† 1. Treatment with insult or contumely. Obs.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIII. lxxvii. (1612), 320. The baffling of those Gods themselues, in those ribaldious plaies.
1620. Dekker, Dreame (1860), 14. That face … put vp spettings, baffulings, buffetings.
† 2. Quibbling; trifling. Obs.
1653. S. Fisher, Baby Bapt., To Rdr. 2. Absolute Absurdities, Babish Baflings.
3. Discomfiture of endeavor, aim, purpose, etc.
1689. Advant. Pres. Settlement, 13. The absolute baffling of that Dispensing Power.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 489. A like baffling of hope.
