Thesaurus / stumper
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One day I sailed safely through a problem that was noted as a regular stumper.
AT BOARDING SCHOOL WITH THE TUCKER TWINSNELL SPEEDEnough was a complete stumper, because there was no f in it.
AT THE COURT OF THE AMRJOHN ALFRED GRAYThat was a "stumper" for the poor woman, who evidently did not understand one-half of the sentence.
AMONG THE PINESJAMES R. GILMOREIt wur a stumper to Sally, so she got Jess to explain it, and the way he did it was enormous.
THE SWAMP DOCTOR'S ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH-WESTJOHN ROBBThat was a 'stumper' for the poor woman, who evidently did not understand one half of the sentence.
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY , VOL I, ISSUE I, JANUARY 1862VARIOUSThis logic was rather a stumper; but they took him up, as before said, and carried him for further examination.
THE WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACYJ. L. UNDERWOODBut how the mischief even a raw Britisher could be soft-sawdered by Anstey is a stumper.
THE LUCK OF GERARD RIDGELEYBERTRAM MITFORD"I thought it was a stumper," he remarked with evident satisfaction.
THE LAND OF PROMISED. TORBETTWORDS RELATED TO STUMPER
- abstruseness
- brainteaser
- braintwister
- charade
- chiller
- cliffhanger
- closed book
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
- difficulty
- enigma
- grabber
- inscrutability
- inscrutableness
- mindboggler
- mystification
- occult
- oracle
- perplexity
- poser
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- question
- rebus
- riddle
- rune
- secrecy
- sixty-four thousand dollar question
- sphinx
- stickler
- stumper
- subtlety
- teaser
- thriller
- tough nut to crack
- twister
- whodunit
- why
- bewilderment
- brain-twister
- charade
- closed book
- complexity
- complication
- confusion
- conundrum
- cryptogram
- dilemma
- distraction
- doubt
- embarrassment
- enigma
- entanglement
- intricacy
- knotty question
- labyrinth
- maze
- mind-boggler
- mystery
- mystification
- perplexity
- plight
- poser
- predicament
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- quandary
- question
- rebus
- sixty-four dollar question
- stickler
- strait
- stumper
- teaser
- tough nut to crack
- tough proposition
- twister
- bewilderment
- brain-twisters
- charades
- closed books
- complexities
- complications
- confusions
- conundrums
- cryptograms
- dilemmas
- distractions
- doubts
- embarrassments
- enigmas
- entanglements
- intricacies
- knotty questions
- labyrinths
- mazes
- mind-bogglers
- mysteries
- mystification
- perplexities
- plights
- posers
- predicaments
- problems
- puzzlements
- puzzles
- quandaries
- questions
- rebuses
- sixty-four dollar questions
- sticklers
- straits
- stumpers
- teasers
- tough nut to cracks
- tough propositions
- twisters
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