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Flummox

//ˈflʌməks// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast. transitive

    "With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford."

  2. 2
    be a mystery or bewildering to wordnet
  3. 3
    To give in, to give up, to collapse. intransitive, uncommon

Etymology

Uncertain, probably risen out of a British dialect (OED finds candidate words in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, southern Cheshire, and Sheffield). The formation seems to be onomatopœic, expressive of the notion of throwing down roughly and untidily. [OED]. First use appears c. 1837 in the writings of Charles Dickens.

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