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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
flummox . - adjective
Confused ,perplexed orflustered .
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Examples
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Possibly because being flummoxed is such a natural state for me.
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But a multitudinous number of Alaska Democrats, including me, whose votes may decide the outcome remain flummoxed, befuddled, uncertain.
Donald Craig Mitchell: Daddy's Girl Versus Sarah's Boy: What's an Alaska Democrat to Do? Donald Craig Mitchell 2010
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July 08, 2008 at 10: 03 AM flummoxed is right. i'm still back at WTF?
Still Waiting 2008
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•I won't have to use the word flummoxed this year to describe him.
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• I won't have to use the word flummoxed this year to describe him.
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EdWeek: "He offered so few details about what that relief would look like that the reporters spent much of the call flummoxed over what the news actually was"...
Alexander Russo: Why Duncan Waiver Proposal Isn't Breaking NCLB Logjam Alexander Russo 2011
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EdWeek: "He offered so few details about what that relief would look like that the reporters spent much of the call flummoxed over what the news actually was"...
Alexander Russo: Why Duncan Waiver Proposal Isn't Breaking NCLB Logjam Alexander Russo 2011
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EdWeek: "He offered so few details about what that relief would look like that the reporters spent much of the call flummoxed over what the news actually was"...
Alexander Russo: Why Duncan Waiver Proposal Isn't Breaking NCLB Logjam Alexander Russo 2011
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EdWeek: "He offered so few details about what that relief would look like that the reporters spent much of the call flummoxed over what the news actually was"...
Alexander Russo: Why Duncan Waiver Proposal Isn't Breaking NCLB Logjam Alexander Russo 2011
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Now she is claiming to be 'flummoxed' by the complexity of Texas delegate apportioning.
wookinpanub commented on the word flummoxed
flum·mox (flŭm'əks)
tr.v. flum·moxed, flum·mox·ing, flum·mox·es Informal
To confuse; perplex.
Probably of English dialectal origin.
flummoxed. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flummoxed (accessed: December 17, 2008).
December 18, 2008
CathyBrooks commented on the word flummoxed
Describing a state of confusion or being bewildered.
June 15, 2009