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Riddle vs Raddle - What's the difference?

riddle | raddle |

As nouns the difference between riddle and raddle

is that riddle is a verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature while raddle is a red ochre.

As verbs the difference between riddle and raddle

is that riddle is to speak ambiguously or enigmatically while raddle is to mark with raddle; to daub something red.

As a proper noun Riddle

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riddle

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, / That solved the riddle which I had proposed.
  • *
  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
    • Synonyms
    * enigma, conundrum, brain-teaser
    Derived terms
    * riddler * riddle stick * a riddle wrapped up in an enigma

    Verb

    (riddl)
  • To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
  • To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question
    • Riddle me this'', meaning ''Answer the following question.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
  • A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

    • Verb

    (riddl)
  • To put something through a .
    • You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
  • * '>citation
  • To fill with holes like a .
    • The machinegun fire began to riddle the poor Afghanis.
  • To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
    • Your argument is riddled with errors.

    Anagrams

    * (l)

    raddle

    English

    Etymology 1

    Related to red. (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A red ochre.
    • Synonyms
    * reddle * ruddle

    Verb

    (raddl)
  • To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
  • To interweave or twist together.
  • * Daniel Defoe
    • Raddling or working it up like basket work.
    Synonyms
    * reddle * ruddle

    See also

    * ruddy

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) word for "sieve", or perhaps English reed.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
  • A hedge or fence made with raddles.
    • (Todd)
  • An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

    • Anagrams

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