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flummox

/ˈflʌməks/

flummox verb: to confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.

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Verb

flummox (third-person singular simple present flummoxes, present participle flummoxing, simple past and past participle flummoxed)

  1. (transitive) To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
    • With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford.2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC
  2. (intransitive, uncommon) To give in, to give up, to collapse.

flummox meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

flummox in Tamil

குழப்பு, புதிராக இரு, தடுமாறச் செய்

flummox in Bengali

হতবুদ্ধি করা, বিভ্রান্ত করা

flummox in Malayalam

perplex, baffle, puzzle
അന്തംവിടുവിക്കുക, കുഴക്കുക, കുഴയ്ക്കുക, ചിന്തക്കുഴപ്പമുണ്ടാക്കുക, സംഭ്രമിപ്പിക്കുക, മനസ്സിനെകുഴക്കുക

Forms of flummox

third-person singular presentflummoxes
present participleflummoxing
past participleflummoxed
pastflummoxed

Origin of flummox

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.

Words formed from flummox

Words that rhyme with flummox

Questions about flummox

What does flummox mean?
Flummox means to confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
What is flummox in Tamil?
Flummox in Tamil is குழப்பு, புதிராக இரு, தடுமாறச் செய். See Flummox meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is flummox?
Flummox is a verb.
How do you pronounce flummox?
Flummox is pronounced /ˈflʌməks/.
What is the past tense of flummox?
The past tense of flummox is flummoxed.

Words near flummox in the dictionary

  1. flummadiddles
  2. flummerdiddle
  3. flummerdiddles
  4. flummeries
  5. flummery
  6. flummox
  7. flummoxable
  8. flummoxed
  9. flummoxer
  10. flummoxers
  11. flummoxery

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flummox (page history and authors); flummox (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flummox (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flummox (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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