I was stumped
I was unsure about what to do
TRANSLATION
stumped = verblüfft to be stumped = mit seiner Weisheit am Ende sein, ratlos sein LEO
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
A 58-year-old woman - believed to be a relative of Camilla Parker Bowles - has become the first person to win £1m on ITV's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
She turned to the people in the studio when STUMPED by the question: "Prime Minister Tony Blair was born in which country? England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales?".
(BBC News - 20th November 2000)
She turned to the people in the studio when STUMPED by the question: "Prime Minister Tony Blair was born in which country? England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales?".
(BBC News - 20th November 2000)
Did you
know?
stumped
"Stump" as a verb meaning "to frustrate, baffle, puzzle or render at a loss" comes from "stump," the noun, which itself comes from the old German word "stumpf."
There are several kinds of "stumps" in the English language, but all of them stem from the primary sense of the word, which is, as the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary puts it, "The part remaining when a limb or other part of the body is amputated or severed."
By metaphorical extension, "stump" has come to mean the part left behind when nearly anything: a pencil, a sailboat mast. a tree trunk,... has been worn down or broken off.
The Middle English verb "stumpen," meaning "to stumble, as if over a tree stump" became our verb "to stump".
(Adapted from Morris Evans)
Note:
In that wonderful British game cricket, "the stumps" are the three vertical posts supporting the bails to form a wicket at each end of the pitch.
And if you have ever been stumped trying to understand cricket, see my P.S. for one explanation.
"Stump" as a verb meaning "to frustrate, baffle, puzzle or render at a loss" comes from "stump," the noun, which itself comes from the old German word "stumpf."
There are several kinds of "stumps" in the English language, but all of them stem from the primary sense of the word, which is, as the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary puts it, "The part remaining when a limb or other part of the body is amputated or severed."
By metaphorical extension, "stump" has come to mean the part left behind when nearly anything: a pencil, a sailboat mast. a tree trunk,... has been worn down or broken off.
The Middle English verb "stumpen," meaning "to stumble, as if over a tree stump" became our verb "to stump".
(Adapted from Morris Evans)
Note:
In that wonderful British game cricket, "the stumps" are the three vertical posts supporting the bails to form a wicket at each end of the pitch.
And if you have ever been stumped trying to understand cricket, see my P.S. for one explanation.
