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Etymologies
- Probably of English dialectal origin.
Examples
“But a multitudinous number of Alaska Democrats, including me, whose votes may decide the outcome remain flummoxed, befuddled, uncertain.”
“Possibly because being flummoxed is such a natural state for me.”
“July 08, 2008 at 10: 03 AM flummoxed is right. i'm still back at WTF?”
“• I won't have to use the word flummoxed this year to describe him.”
“•I won't have to use the word flummoxed this year to describe him.”
“EdWeek: "He offered so few details about what that relief would look like that the reporters spent much of the call flummoxed over what the news actually was"...”
The Huffington Post: Alexander Russo: Why Duncan Waiver Proposal Isn't Breaking NCLB Logjam
“Now she is claiming to be 'flummoxed' by the complexity of Texas delegate apportioning.”
“The title of the film, Surveillance, kind of flummoxed me for a while.”
“She seemed kind of flummoxed and told me the photographer would call me tomorrow.”
“Stein said two Republican committee members were "flummoxed" by such basic questions on Islam and the Middle East, and as the Iraq Study Group reported last week, only six people at the US embassy in Baghdad are fluent in Arabic.”
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abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 327 more...
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baffle, farrago, confound, befuddle, daze, disorient, discombobulate, stupefy, perplex, mystify, bewilder, boggle and 134 more...
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CathyBrooks Describing a state of confusion or being bewildered. Jun 15, 2009
wookinpanub flum·mox (flŭm'əks)
tr.v. flum·moxed, flum·mox·ing, flum·mox·es Informal
To confuse; perplex.
Probably of English dialectal origin.
flummoxed. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flummoxed (accessed: December 17, 2008). Dec 18, 2008