scratch one's head

verb

Etymology

scratch + one's + head

Definitions

  1. To puzzle, ponder, or wonder about something.

    • Faced with a box full of hundreds of small parts and forty pages worth of assembly instructions, he could do little more than stand there and scratch his head.
    • But Sunderland will be left scratching their heads at the result after creating enough chances to have won two games in a refreshingly open and frantic first period.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scratch one's head. 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