Plural of riddle

regular plural

The plural of riddle is riddles.

Forms of riddle

I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
But like Oedipus and Croesus before him, Macbeth missolves the riddles from the future, charging into doom.2022, Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories, page 87. From the entry missolve
For a children's surgeon every case is a bodyful of riddles.1966, Soviet Life - Issues 112-123. From the entry bodyful
She seemed to me an aunt who was talking in riddles.1954, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry salt the mine
This book takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the so-called minor genres of African orature—riddles.2015 April, Akíntúndé Akínyẹmí, “Introduction”, in Orature and Yorùbá Riddles, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry orature

noun A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
noun An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
verb To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

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