stumped
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌmpt
Adjective[edit]
stumped (comparative more stumped, superlative most stumped)
- (informal) Perplexed, confused.
- Synonyms: at a loss, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confused, flummoxed, lost, nonplussed, perplexed, puzzled
- I'm stumped by this question.
- 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[1]:
- So if women don’t come on flirty or maternal, she thinks, some men get stumped.
- (cricket, of a batsman, not comparable) out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.
- (slang, archaic) Done for; bankrupt or ruined.
- 1873, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 11, page 577:
- "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."
Translations[edit]
baffled
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in cricket
References[edit]
- (done for, ruined): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Verb[edit]
stumped
- simple past and past participle of stump