Both Uses of
baffle
in
The House of Mirth
- Mr. Gryce was touched by her disinterestedness, and, to escape from the threatened vacuity of the afternoon, had taken her advice and departed mournfully, in a dust-hood and goggles: as the motor-car plunged down the avenue she smiled at his resemblance to a baffled beetle.†
Chpt 1.6
- She turned away, as though to mark that its final term had in fact been reached, and he followed her for a few steps with a baffled sense of her having after all kept the game in her own hands.†
Chpt 2.7 *
Definition:
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(baffle as in: baffled her) to completely confuse someone