becroggling

Verb

becroggle (third-person singular simple present becroggles, present participle becroggling, simple past and past participle becroggled)

1. (dated, slang) To cause shock or confusion sufficient to cause brief paralysis.
   • When I finally figured out that she was asking if I was sad at not winning a Nebula, I was becroggled. I finally found my voice and told her that in twenty-five years of reading and writing science fiction, I had heard a hell of a lot of gauche questions, butthat really took the cake.1982, Marion Zimmer Bradley, “Darkover Retrospective”, in The Planet Savers/Sword of Aldones, page 347