stumper

How to use stumper in a sentence

• One day I sailed safely through a problem that was noted as a regular stumper.

  At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins | Nell Speed

• Enough was a complete stumper, because there was no f in it.

  At the Court of the Amr | John Alfred Gray

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

  Among the Pines | James R. Gilmore

• It 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-West | John Robb

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

  Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862 | Various