flummox

Etymology
, 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.

Verb

 * 1)  To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
 * 2)  To give in, to give up, to collapse.
 * 1)  To give in, to give up, to collapse.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:confuse

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, remare contro, disilludere,
 * Maori: pōrahu
 * Russian:, приводить в замешательство
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , smušiti