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scratching one's head

scratching one's head is the present participle and gerund of scratch one's head.

Meaning of scratch one's head

Verb

scratch one's head (third-person singular simple present scratches one's head, present participle scratching one's head, simple past and past participle scratched one's head)

  1. (idiomatic) 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.

Questions about scratching one's head

What is scratching one's head the present participle and gerund of?
Scratching one's head is the present participle and gerund of scratch one's head.

Words near scratching one's head in the dictionary

  1. scratching a living
  2. scratching an itch
  3. scratching below the surface
  4. scratching beneath the surface
  5. scratching by
  6. scratching one's head
  7. scratching one's own itch
  8. scratching out
  9. scratching post
  10. scratching posts
  11. scratching that

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