puzzled

Etymology

adj

  1. Confused or perplexed.
    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. 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of puzzle

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