Carlos and his word or phrase of the week! This weeks word is Flummox!
Our word of the week is: Flummox!
Our hero Carlos thought it meant:
“I reckon it means rusty beard, maybe a kind of horrible disease?”
What it really means:
Carlos is not far off in a strange fashion with the whole rather bizarre ‘rusty beard’ thing. At least this shows that he was ‘flummoxed’ by the word flummoxed!
So flummox basically relates to confusion. To be flummoxed is to be confused and in laymans terms ‘to be downright stumped’! To say ‘I am flummoxed by all that’s going on around me’ is to say that you haven’t a clue what the heck is going on with all the madness around you. (Often said in pubs at around 10pm).
Our friends at the http://www.freedictionary.com have this to say:
flummox – be a mystery or bewildering to; “This beats me!”; “Got me–I don’t know the answer!”; “a vexing problem”; “This question really stuck me”
Which I think is a politer way of saying ‘I really don’t have a monkeys about what’s occurring.’
Bring back the word Flummox we say! A beautiful under-used word that even those crazy teenagers in England are not taught. Though if they used it then it’d probably end up as some variation of gangster speak. Instead of being a ‘hoodie’ you’d end up being a ‘flummie’.
Though there are too many letters in ‘flummox’ for our teenagers to use as it can’t be reduced to text speak. And I’m not even going to attempt to try….
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