head scratcher

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Noun

head scratcher (plural head scratchers)

  1. A device used to scratch the head.
    • 2004, Kelley Hays-Gilpin - Ambiguous Images: Gender and Rock Art (ISBN number 0759100659) page 133.
      Her aunt's husband or her grandfather brings a head scratcher. "If the maid scratched her hair or body with her fingers during these days of observance, her hair would fall out."
  2. (idiomatic) Something particularly puzzling or confusing.
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