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- verb transitive, informal To
confuse ,confound , orperplex .
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Examples
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*Unless you're British, then confusticate and bebother you!
Archive 2009-03-01 Heo 2009
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I hadda confusticate all teh skotch earlier, due to Maus’s inabilitey to control hisself.
Yeah – you were rite Pete - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Wonder what she'll do thar, wid no niggers to confusticate?
The Expressman and the Detective Allan Pinkerton 1856
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It's as if whoever is doing this has something going meant entirely to confuse and confusticate. "
The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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And here we are-without the burglar, confusticate him!”
The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938
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Hi! hobbit, confusticate you, where are you?” and other things of that sort, but there was no answer.
The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938
Gobbledegook commented on the word confusticate
Annoyed damnation of a person, i.e. "Confound and confusticae you, Bilbo Baggins!"
September 13, 2009