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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Sam Allard, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
When those pressures are sharp and palpable (Jenna Lyons has a specifically New York form of celebrity that flummoxes the more traditional housewife models on the RHONY reboot), the show is fun.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
And the defense is a serious unit, shutting down the Texans a week after flummoxing the 49ers.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2024
The Trump-Vance campaign has seemed flummoxed at times in its response to Swift’s Harris endorsement.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
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“Flummox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flummox. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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