stumped
adj1
Informal Perplexed, confused.
- I'm stumped by this question.
- So if women don’t come on flirty or maternal, she thinks, some men get stumped.2018 December 28, Catherine Shoard, “Keira Knightley: 'I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick”, in The Guardian:
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Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Of a batsman out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.
- "Why, Walsher," said Mr. Stubber, "how many times a day do you rub your face with a brass candlestick? Why, I lent you a pony when you were stumped, and you carried off a cool hundred."1873, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 11, page 577:
- Derived terms
- unstumped