单词 | brain-teasing |
释义 | > as lemmasbrain-teasing brain-teasing adj. intellectually challenging; puzzling, thought-provoking. ΚΠ 1828 C. White Almack's Revisited I. iii. 64 He..had gone through all the brain-teazing squares, cubes, and rhomboids of collegiate instruction. 1911 T. S. Spivey Seven Sons of Ballyhack vii. 102 What is your latest brain-teasing proposition? 1997 N.Y. Times 5 Dec. b10/2 An august math professor..posts special, brain-teasing problems for his students. < as lemmas |
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