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bumfuzzle

Syllables: bum·fuz·zle/ˈbʌmfʌzl/

bumfuzzle verb: to confuse or fluster.

Verb

bumfuzzle (third-person singular simple present bumfuzzles, present participle bumfuzzling, simple past and past participle bumfuzzled)

  1. (Southern US, colloquial, transitive, chiefly South Midland US) To confuse or fluster.

bumfuzzle meaning in Tamil and Bengali

bumfuzzle in Tamil

குழப்பு

bumfuzzle in Bengali

বিভ্রান্ত, বিহ্বল করা

Forms of bumfuzzle

third-person singular presentbumfuzzles
present participlebumfuzzling
past participlebumfuzzled
pastbumfuzzled

Origin of bumfuzzle

Probably an alteration of fuzzled (“confused, intoxicated”), with the colloquial intensifier prefix bum-. First attested in 19th-century U.S. dialect.

Questions about bumfuzzle

What does bumfuzzle mean?
Bumfuzzle means to confuse or fluster.
What is bumfuzzle in Tamil?
Bumfuzzle in Tamil is குழப்பு. See Bumfuzzle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bumfuzzle?
Bumfuzzle is a verb.
How do you pronounce bumfuzzle?
Bumfuzzle is pronounced /ˈbʌmfʌzl/.
What is the past tense of bumfuzzle?
The past tense of bumfuzzle is bumfuzzled.

Words near bumfuzzle in the dictionary

  1. bumfuckers
  2. bumfuckest
  3. bumfucking
  4. Bumfucklahoma
  5. bumfucks
  6. bumfuzzle
  7. bumfuzzled
  8. bumfuzzles
  9. bumfuzzling
  10. Bumgardner
  11. Bumgardners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumfuzzle (page history and authors); bumfuzzle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bumfuzzle (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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