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kerflumixed en · ADJ

Etymology

From ker- + flummoxed.

Meanings

  1. Discombobulated, flummoxed
    • Everyone else appeared kerflumixed by the announcement. 2014 February 5, Linda Austin, Midnight Amethyst, Xlibris US, →ISBN:
    • … an’ ev’ry one else done the same, Miss Green too kerflumixed to flag it 1920, Wilbur S. Boyle, “The Lallapaloosa”, in Johnnie Kelly, New York, United States: Grosset & Dunlap, page 69:
    • Let him up, officer, he is all kerflumixed! 1912 November 14, “Heart-to-Heart Talks with Philistines by the Pastor of his Flock”, in The Philistine, volume 35, number 6, page 249:
    • The ole Jedge was kerflumixed an’ that fixed ’im. 1894, B. F. Sawyer, David and Abigail, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Arena Publishing Company, page 65:
    • You’ve got him clean kerflumixed, and you want to hold him there. 1884 April 12, James Whitcomb Riley, Indianapolis Journal:

Forms

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more kerflumixed Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most kerflumixed Degree=Sup lexicographic
kerflummoxed alternative lexicographic