delik deşik et(mek)

Turkish - English

Definition of delik deşik et(mek) in Turkish English dictionary

riddle

to put something through a sieve

You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.

to fill with holes

The shots from his gun began to riddle the target.

A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature, such as "It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?"

{v} to solve, sift, run through a sieve

{f} solve, interpret; swell up, inflate; perforate, pierce; detonate, explode

To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot

If someone riddles something with bullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it. Unknown attackers riddled two homes with gunfire. Deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The riddle is a form of guessing game that has been a part of the folklore of most cultures from ancient times. Western scholars generally recognize two main kinds of riddle: the descriptive riddle, usually describing an animal, person, plant, or object in an intentionally enigmatic manner (thus an egg is "a little white house without door or window"); and the shrewd or witty question. A classical Greek example of the latter type is "What is the strongest of all things?" "Love: iron is strong, but the blacksmith is stronger, and love can subdue the blacksmith

A coarse sieve used for separating chaff from corn, sand from gravel, ashes from cinders

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically

set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"

a sieve; a puzzle

pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"

Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling

separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

a sieve

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand

To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel

a coarse sieve (as for gravel)

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

Hyphenation

de·lik de·şik et(·mek)