"puzzlery" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From puzzle + -ry. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|puzzle|ry}} puzzle + -ry Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} puzzlery (uncountable)
  1. Something that contains puzzles; Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-puzzlery-en-noun-7ig7qyyc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ry, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 48
  2. The process of solving puzzles. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-puzzlery-en-noun-ZL0wVDd5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ry, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 48
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          "ref": "2004, Aaron Parry, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Talmud:",
          "text": "Want to try to unravel this bid of Talmud puzzlery yourself?",
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          "ref": "2011, John Harding, Florence and Giles, page 6:",
          "text": "Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.",
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          "ref": "1964, Noel Victor Riggs, Studies on Some Australian Natural Products, page 3:",
          "text": "The rules of this game are of course a little more complicated than those of jigsaw puzzlery.",
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          "ref": "1976, Two Tone, page 6:",
          "text": "Personally, I enjoy the challenge of this jig-saw puzzlery but oh, how I long for a few neat clerihews of four or five lines, some vivid haikus with their seventeen syllables, or a tiny one verse gem.",
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          "ref": "2007, G. Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor, page 150:",
          "text": "I trust that the company manufacturing this particular brand of cigarettes — the last successful holdover from the Arabian Nights names of many of the earlier American brands, such as \"Fatima,\" etc. — will not disagree that most of the 'blue' gags in impromptu magic and puzzlery that concern cigarettes center around the “Camel” brand.",
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