puzzle head (puzlhed)

One who puzzles over matters that are plain and intelligible; a person of confused notions. "All this theistic philosophy of yours only so " much grist to their mill in the endure They means it much right their wives in the Robert, shaidon't see it returned the Squire, "because most men are puzzle heads." Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere, xli. puzzle-headed (puz'l-hed"ed), a. Given to puzzling over matters that are plain and intelligible; also, characteristic of puzzle heads. He [Maittaire] seems to have been a puzzle - headed man, with a large share of scholarship, but with little geometry or logick in his head, without method, and po e ed of little genius. Johnson, in Boswell, an. 1780.