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flummoxery

flummoxery noun: an act or practice of flummoxing.

Noun

flummoxery (uncountable)

  1. An act or practice of flummoxing.
    • Most powers would be diffused among under-financed and ill-equipped 'ethnic' governments, with only the whites able to profit and prosper, much as they always have. A certain price would have to be paid for such flummoxery, of course: prestigious and high-paying offices for complaisant black...1987, Namibia: A Direct United Nations Responsibility
    • ... its bosom, or accompanied by ironic comment about the flummoxery by which medical scientists deceived the rest of us into taking them seriously.1989, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Origin of flummoxery

From flummox + -ery.

Questions about flummoxery

What does flummoxery mean?
Flummoxery means an act or practice of flummoxing.
What part of speech is flummoxery?
Flummoxery is a noun.

Words near flummoxery in the dictionary

  1. flummox
  2. flummoxable
  3. flummoxed
  4. flummoxer
  5. flummoxers
  6. flummoxery
  7. flummoxes
  8. flummoxing
  9. flummoxy
  10. flummux
  11. flummuxed

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