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flummux

flummux is the obsolete form of flummox.

Meaning of flummox

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.

Forms of flummux

third-person singular presentflummuxes
present participleflummuxing
past participleflummuxed
pastflummuxed

Questions about flummux

What is flummux the obsolete form of?
Flummux is the obsolete form of flummox.

Words near flummux in the dictionary

  1. flummoxers
  2. flummoxery
  3. flummoxes
  4. flummoxing
  5. flummoxy
  6. flummux
  7. flummuxed
  8. flummuxes
  9. flummuxing
  10. flummydiddle
  11. flummydiddles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flummux (page history and authors); flummox (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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