flummox

vt. 使狼狈, 使失措, 使混乱, 挫败 n. 失败

发音

其它 /ˈflʌməks/
US /ˈflʌməks/

词形变化

flummoxed flummoxes 三单 flummoxes flummoxing flummoxing 现在分词 flummoxed 过去式 flummoxed 过去分词

别名

flummux

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To give in, to give up, to collapse.

    不及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

get beat stick puzzle pose gravel amaze vex bewilder mystify

上位词 8

throw fox confuse confound bedevil befuddle discombobulate fuddle

下位词 5

escape riddle stump elude mix up

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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