flummox
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 21
- Words With Friends
- 25
- Letters
- 7
Definition of flummox
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
-
(transitive)To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
“With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford.”
See all 2 definitions Show less
verb
-
(transitive)To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
“With United's movement flummoxing the visitors, Berbatov saw his low shot saved well by Ben Foster on his first return to Old Trafford.”
- (intransitive, uncommon)To give in, to give up, to collapse.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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.
Words you can make from flummox
24 playable · top: LUMMOX (17 pts)
Best play lummox 17 points4-letter words
3 words3-letter words
11 words2-letter words
9 wordsFind your best play with flummox
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes flummox, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.