出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/04/23 00:40 UTC 版)
Uncertain, probably risen out of a British dialect (OED finds candidate words in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, southern Cheshire, and Sheffield). The formation seems to be onomatopœic, expressive of the notion of throwing down roughly and untidily. [OED]. First use appears c. 1837 in the writings of Charles Dickens.
flummox (third-person singular simple present flummoxes, present participle flummoxing, simple past and past participle flummoxed)
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a paste-pot
a plaything with which one trifles for pleasure
a wrinkle
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