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English
Etymology
From ker- + flummoxed.
Adjective
kerflummoxed (comparative more kerflummoxed, superlative most kerflummoxed)
- Discombobulated, flummoxed
1892, Margaret Holmes, The Price of the Ring, 298 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States: F. J. Schulte & Company, page 125:Jest for a minute he looked all kerflummoxed ; then ’e spoke up, bold’s brass, an says ’e, ‘Good mornin’, Hannah.
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: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.
1986, “Statement of Susan H. Keller, Daytona Beach, FL”, in Medicare: Oversight on Payment Delays : Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, Jacksonville, FL, May 23, 1986, number 20, U. S. Government Printing Office, page 4:When I received it back for the fourth or fifth time I was completely kerflummoxed.
2012 September 30, Michael Gilbert, Ring of Terror, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 6:Certainly I was kerflummoxed and I expect it showed.
Verb
kerflummoxed
- simple past and past participle of kerflummox