flummox

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast. transitive
    — With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford.
  2. To give in, to give up, to collapse. intransitive,uncommon

词形变化

flummoxes present,singular,third-person flummoxing participle,present flummoxed participle,past flummoxed past

词汇关系

衍生词
flummoxable flummoxed flummoxer flummoxery flummoxing flummoxy

词源

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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