Riddle Cambridge Definition. Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge. McDowell defines the riddle as an interrogative ludic routine incorporating some form of contrived ambiguity 88.
Pierce many times The bullets riddled his body verb. Riddle noun C NOT UNDERSTAND a situation or event that you cannot understand. C usually singular.
A coarse sieve as for gravel Familiarity information.
Separate with a riddle as grain from chaff. C usually singular. A strange and difficult question that has a clever and often funny answer. 1 n-count A riddle is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but which has a clever or amusing answer.