baffler

• “Creature creator Andrew Bell and puzzle master Chris Yates are proud to present the second installment of their second collaborative 'baffler' project, "Bottle with a Bear Problem":”

  TOYSREVILs I LIKE TOYS

• “I think he had some kind of electronic baffler in there as well.”

  Fictionaut: Final Resting Place of The Pen

• “But maybe the biggest baffler here is the sheriff's and fair director.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009

• “Bette showed women how to deal with the delicate situation of the brush off (or tease) by sparing him the psych-speak and exiting with a baffler: As Ms. Davis 'Southern belle character drawled in Cabin in the Cotton, "I'd love to kiss you, but I've just washed my hair.”

  Kim Morgan: Happy 100, Bette Davis

• “Many things baffle me, but this morning the big baffler is that a woman married to a nationalist (SDLP) councillor had never heard of sectarianism.”

  Omagh 10 years on

• “Speaking of which, perhaps you can help me understand something that's been a baffler for years: I keep reading that Mozart, squeezed by a deadline, tarted up the "Haffner Serenade" a mite and pawned it off as his 35th symphony.”

  Wolfgang!

• “I agree, that's a baffler, given our poor performance.”

  the inevitable

• “He called the robbery a baffler, and ruled out insurance fraud, even though Sol Hurwitz is rapaciously rumored to be a dice game degenerate.”

  White Jazz

• “He spent nearly half an hour fitting a baffler to the spout, so that the compressed matter inside wouldn't hiss as it poured out.”

  The Voyage of the Space Beagle

• “Besides, sometimes the barricade becomes a compact wall, -- a baffler, unless boat and boatmen can circumvent it, -- unless the nautical carriage can itself be carried about the obstacle, -- can be picked up, shouldered, and made off with.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862

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