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Puzzled vs Nuzzled - What's the difference?

puzzled | nuzzled |

As verbs the difference between puzzled and nuzzled

is that puzzled is past tense of puzzle while nuzzled is past tense of nuzzle.

As an adjective puzzled

is confused or perplexed.

puzzled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Confused or perplexed.
  • * 1848 , , Vanity Fair , Bradbury and Sons, 11:
    • (...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.

    Derived terms

    * puzzledly * puzzledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (puzzle)

    • nuzzled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nuzzle)

    • nuzzle

    English

    Verb

  • To touch someone or something with the nose.
    • The horse nuzzled its foal's head gently to wake him up.
    The bird nuzzled up to the wires of the cage.
    She nuzzled her boyfriend in the cinema.
  • (obsolete) To nurse; to foster; to bring up.
  • * Milton
    • The people had been nuzzled in idolatry.
  • (obsolete) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

    • Related terms

    * (l)

    References

    * Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, Abram Smythe Palmer, G. Bell and Sons, 1882, p. 261