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** English
*** Etymology
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. a person asked or expected to solve a riddle .
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1976 | author=Thomas A. Burns | titleurl=https://www.jstor.org/stable/539687 | title=Riddling: Occasion to Act | journal=Journal of American Folklore | page=162
|passage=The second possible action by the riddler in the event the RIDDLEE
admits to no answer is to refuse to supply the RIDDLEE with the answer, after
which he may berate the RIDDLEE for his failure.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2008 | author=Sara Klein-Braslavsky | chapterurl=https://books.google.ie/books?id=6AYvt0zwTPQC&pg=PA152 | chapter=Interpretative Riddles in Maimonides' _Guide of the Perplexed_ | title=Maimonidean Studies | volume=5 | page=152 | publisher=KTAV | isbn=9780881259414
|passage=Because RIDDLEES have already solved the Sammael riddle and know that
the referent of Sammael is imagination, they also know the identify of the
controlling factor in the riddle of the Serpent.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2011 | author=Charles R. Gruner | url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=J4q-tz81NdwC&pg=PA150 | title=The Game of Humor: A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh | page=150 | publisher=Transaction | isbn=9781412836951
|passage=The riddler hopes and expects the RIDDLEE to not know the answer.
Since the RIDDLEE cannot give the answer, the riddler can then supply it, thus
“winning” this minuscule “contest of wit.”}}
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