stumper
Example Sentences
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And Watson got one of those three attempts wrong, but at least it was hard enough to become a Triple Stumper.
From Forbes • Feb. 17, 2011
Oops - another pokey prod just outside off, and that's the easiest catch Stumper Prior will ever have.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2010
If Come-Back Stumper agreed with what was said, it meant that he was feeling unwell with an attack of curried-liver-trouble.
From The Extra Day by Blackwood, Algernon
They liked his "title," declaring that the letters stood for "Come Back," and referring to their owner as "Come Back Stumper."
From The Extra Day by Blackwood, Algernon
To see him "distinkly is an awful job," according to Uncle Felix; or as Come-Back Stumper realised in the middle of another clump of bramble bushes, "Perspective is necessary to proper vision."
From The Extra Day by Blackwood, Algernon
