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brainteaser

noun
/ˈbɹeɪnˌtizɚ/US

Etymology

From brain + teaser.

  1. inherited from *taisijan✻ — “to separate, tug, shred”
  2. inherited from tǣsan — “to tease”
  3. inherited from tesen
  4. suffixed as teaser — “tease + er”
  5. compounded as brainteaser — “brain + teaser”

Definitions

  1. A problem or puzzle devised to exercise the brain and mind.

    • She bought me a book of brainteasers, which is both entertaining and also supposedly good for decreasing dementia risk.

  2. Any difficult problem or puzzle.

    • Trying to figure out how to square this circle is a brainteaser to say the least.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for brainteaser. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA