Etymology

baffler

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Today it means: Something that causes a person to be baffled, particularly a difficult puzzle or riddle. Full definition →

English baffle ← French beferder.?
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The story

  1. Frenchbafouerder.?
  2. Frenchbeferder.?
  3. Englishbaffle
  4. English todaybaffler

From baffle + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.