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kerflummoxed

kerflummoxed adjective: discombobulated, flummoxed. Also the simple past and past participle of kerflummox.

Adjective

kerflummoxed (comparative more kerflummoxed, superlative most kerflummoxed)

  1. Discombobulated, flummoxed
    • Jest for a minute he looked all kerflummoxed ; then ’e spoke up, bold’s brass, an says ’e, ‘Good mornin’, Hannah.1892, Margaret Holmes, The Price of the Ring, 298 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States: F. J. Schulte & Company, page 125
    • I kerflummoxed them. By the time they had done speakin’, I quite forgot what you told me to say ; but I up and told them that I had been man and boy at sea for forty years, and that I never yet had a teetotal mate that went on the spree but he kept on it for three weeks.1901, William Robertson, “Divisions of the Master Mariners”, in Auld Ayr: A Study in Disappearing Men and Manners, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom: Stephen & Pollack, page 97

Also used as

kerflummoxed is also the simple past and past participle of kerflummox.

Examples of kerflummoxed in a sentence

  • When I received it back for the fourth or fifth time I was completely kerflummoxed.1986, “Statement of Susan H. Keller, Daytona Beach, FL”, in Medicare: Oversight on Payment Delays : Hearing Before the Special Committee on...
  • Certainly I was kerflummoxed and I expect it showed.2012 September 30, Michael Gilbert, Ring of Terror, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 6:

Forms of kerflummoxed

comparativemore kerflummoxed
superlativemost kerflummoxed
alternative formkerflumixed

Origin of kerflummoxed

From ker- + flummoxed.

Questions about kerflummoxed

What does kerflummoxed mean?
Kerflummoxed means discombobulated, flummoxed.
How do you use kerflummoxed in a sentence?
When I received it back for the fourth or fifth time I was completely kerflummoxed.
What part of speech is kerflummoxed?
Kerflummoxed is an adjective.

Words near kerflummoxed in the dictionary

  1. kerfluff
  2. kerfluffle
  3. kerfluffles
  4. kerflumixed
  5. kerflummox
  6. kerflummoxed
  7. kerflummoxes
  8. kerflummoxing
  9. Kerfoot
  10. Kerfoots
  11. Kerfourn

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