flummox
Verb
Verb Forms: flummoxed, flummoxing, flummoxes
- To perplex or confuse someone completely.
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
- To give in, to give up, to collapse.
Examples
- The unexpected opening move, ZYXOMAVIR, completely FLUMMOXED the Scrabble beginner.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
Scrabble Score: 21
flummox: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordflummox: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flummox: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary