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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-882/
- Published: 2022-06-29T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-01T18:49:18.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

The word for today is…

flummox (verb):

: confuse

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flummox?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : No one is completely sure where the word flummox comes from, but Charles Dickens was aware of it and used it in his 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers. It became quite common in both British and American English by the end of the 19th century.

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