n. & v.
—n.
1 a question or statement testing ingenuity in divining its answer or meaning.
2 a puzzling fact or thing or person.
—v.
1 intr. speak in or propound riddles.
2 tr. solve or explain (a riddle).
Derivatives:
riddler n.
Etymology: OE raeligdels, raeligdelse opinion, riddle, rel. to READ
2.
v. & n.
—v.tr. (usu. foll. by with)
1 make many holes in, esp. with gunshot.
2 (in passive) fill; spread through; permeate (was riddled with errors).
3 pass through a riddle.
—n. a coarse sieve.
Etymology: OE hriddel, earlier hrider: cf. hridrian sift
Useful english dictionary. 2012.