flummox

Signification (Anglais)

1. (transitive) To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
2. (intransitive, uncommon) To give in, to give up, to collapse.

Concepts

ahurir

abasourdir

consterner

étonner

stupéfier

ébahir

éberluer

effarer

interloquer

méduser

s’abêtir

abêtir

Synonymes

mystify

bewilder

confuse

nonplus

stupefy

amaze

get

stick

dumbfound

vex

gravel

baffle

daze

bemuse

perplex

pose

puzzle

discomfit

beat

fox

🦊

disrupt

dissolve

fold

fuddle

heterodyne

immingle

immix

intermix

jumble

meld

mingle

mix

mix in

mix up

motley

obfuscate

obscure

paddle

randomise

ravel

resolve

rile

rumple

scramble

snarl

sophisticate

stagger

stir

stir up

stump

Traductions

sconcertare

sbalordire

verwirrt

verblüffen

σαστίζω

verdummen

αναστατώνω

embajanir

ζαλίζω

benommen machen

verblöden

εκπλήσσω

καταπλήσσω

vernarren

betäuben

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈflʌməks/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.