puzzled

ymmällään, hämmentynyt, kummastunut confused Confused or perplexed.
1848, w:William Makepeace Thackeray, http://books.google.nl/books?id=Ql0OAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=vanity+fair&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=u1HrUo-zAoHs0gWq7YHYBw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAQv=onepage&q=vanity%20fair&f=false Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Sons, 11:

(...) when the day of the departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act.

Once or twice he scratched his head, and stared out of the window with a puzzled frown. And each time, after a brief survey of the other side of Half Moon Street, he turned back again to the breakfast table with a grin.