flummox
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flummox
- /ˈflʌməks/
Rhymes with -ʌməks
Where it comes from
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.
verb flummoxes · flummoxing · flummoxed
- To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast. With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford.
- To give in, to give up, to collapse.
