flummoxed; flummoxing; flummoxes
: confuse
He was flummoxed by the legal jargon.
a hapless innocent who had been flummoxed by wily city slickers—
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No one is completely sure where the word flummox comes from, but Charles Dickens was aware of it and used it in his 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers. It became quite common in both British and American English by the end of the 19th century.
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an actor who's easily flummoxed by any changes in the script
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Experts were at times flummoxed and impressed by how Lively managed to get hold of the text messages in the absence of a lawsuit.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
What had flummoxed the other shop took Frank moments to diagnose with a simple spark plug test.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2024
That puts extra onus on Brock Purdy to carefully dissect a Chiefs defense that flummoxed the 49ers in the Super Bowl with their combination of man coverage and blitzes.
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
Cousins, meanwhile, has been able to learn Bates’ trick for disguising that coverage, which has been helpful considering he was flummoxed by that exact thing during OTA practices.
—Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024
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Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
What had flummoxed the other shop took Frank moments to diagnose with a simple spark plug test.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2024
That puts extra onus on Brock Purdy to carefully dissect a Chiefs defense that flummoxed the 49ers in the Super Bowl with their combination of man coverage and blitzes.
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
Cousins, meanwhile, has been able to learn Bates’ trick for disguising that coverage, which has been helpful considering he was flummoxed by that exact thing during OTA practices.
—Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Flummox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flummox. Accessed 13 Jan. 2025.
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