Word of the Day – Flummox

Flummox (verb)

flum-oks

Perplex (someone) greatly; bewilder.

Mid 19th century: probably of dialect origin; flummock ‘to make untidy, confuse’ is recorded in western counties and the north Midlands.

Example sentences

“It doesn’t take much to flummox me.”

“I’m flummoxed as to how we’ve ended up in this mess, I thought we were meant to be intelligent.”