stumper

"I thought it was a stumper," he remarked with evident satisfaction.

But how the mischief even a raw Britisher could be soft-sawdered by Anstey is a stumper.

That was a 'stumper' for the poor woman, who evidently did not understand one half of the sentence.

This logic was rather a stumper; but they took him up, as before said, and carried him for further examination.

That was a "stumper" for the poor woman, who evidently did not understand one-half of the sentence.

It wur a stumper to Sally, so she got Jess to explain it, and the way he did it was enormous.