metagrobolize

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  1. To puzzle; puzzle out. [Humorous.] Ha, ha, a pair of breeches is not so easily got; I have experience of it myself. Consider, Domine, I have been these eighteen days in matagrabolising this brave speech. Rabelais (trans.), i. 158. I find my brains altogether metagrabolized and confounded, and my spirits in a most dunsical puzzle. Rabelais (trans.), iii. 59. “You see,” quoth Stalky, as they strolled up to prep. with the ignoble herd, “if you get the houses well mixed up an' scufflin', it's even bettin' that some ass will start a real row. Hullo, Orrin, you look rather metagrobolized.” R. Kipling, Stalky & Co., p. 124.

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  1. French metagraboulizer (Rabelais), to puzzle (Cot-grave).
 

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