All 5 Uses of
baffle
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He strode down the hill amid the tumult of sudden-risen vapours of wounded pride and fallen hope and baffled desire.†
Chpt 2
- He moaned to himself like some baffled prowling beast.†
Chpt 2
- It baffled me for a long time.†
Chpt 5 *
- His lips began to murmur the first verses over and over; then went on stumbling through half verses, stammering and baffled; then stopped.†
Chpt 5
- His anger against her found vent in coarse railing at her paramour, whose name and voice and features offended his baffled pride: a priested peasant, with a brother a policeman in Dublin and a brother a potboy in Moycullen.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(baffle as in: baffled her) to completely confuse someone