flummox
Betekenis (Engels)
- (transitive) To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To give in, to give up, to collapse.
Sinonieme
mix in
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈflʌməks/
Etimologie (Engels)
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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