Noun: puzzel
| Singular | puzzel |
| Plural | puzzels |
Sample Sentences
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Pucelle or puzzel, Dolphin or dogfish, / Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels [c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 1, scene 4:]
Nouns inflected like puzzel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably from French pucelle (“a virgin”). Possibly due to English propaganda against Joan of Arc who was also known as La Pucelle ("The Virgin; The Maid"). Possibly influenced by English pizzle (“penis”). See: French Nouns '
pucelle', English Nouns '
pizzle'.