subs. (old colloquial).—Perplexity; bewilderment: also PUZZLEMENT. Whence, PUZZLEHEADED and PUZZLEHEADEDNESS.
1748. RICHARDSON, Clarissa, VI. 367. I was resolved to travel with him into the land of PUZZLEDOM.
1881. E. A. FREEMAN, Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice, 79. The wonderful interior of the double basilica opens upon us. The first feeling is simply PUZZLEDOM.
