See bumfuzzle on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Probably an alteration of fuzzled (“confused, intoxicated”), with the colloquial intensifier prefix bum-. First attested in 19th-century U.S. dialect.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bumfuzzles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bumfuzzling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bumfuzzled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bumfuzzled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "bumfuzzle (third-person singular simple present bumfuzzles, present participle bumfuzzling, simple past and past participle bumfuzzled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"bum",
"fuz",
"zle"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Midland US English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Southern US English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To confuse or fluster."
],
"id": "en-bumfuzzle-en-verb-ZTEmmcQH",
"links": [
[
"confuse",
"confuse"
],
[
"fluster",
"fluster"
]
],
"qualifier": "chiefly South Midland US",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, colloquial, chiefly South Midland US, Southern US) To confuse or fluster."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "befuddled"
},
{
"word": "bewildered"
},
{
"word": "confounded"
},
{
"word": "flummoxed"
},
{
"word": "perplexed"
}
],
"tags": [
"Southern-US",
"colloquial",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbʌmfʌzl/",
"note": "uk"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbəmˌfəz(ə)l/",
"note": "us"
}
],
"word": "bumfuzzle"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Probably an alteration of fuzzled (“confused, intoxicated”), with the colloquial intensifier prefix bum-. First attested in 19th-century U.S. dialect.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bumfuzzles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bumfuzzling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bumfuzzled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bumfuzzled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "bumfuzzle (third-person singular simple present bumfuzzles, present participle bumfuzzling, simple past and past participle bumfuzzled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"bum",
"fuz",
"zle"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "befuddled"
},
{
"word": "bewildered"
},
{
"word": "confounded"
},
{
"word": "flummoxed"
},
{
"word": "perplexed"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English colloquialisms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Midland US English",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Southern US English"
],
"glosses": [
"To confuse or fluster."
],
"links": [
[
"confuse",
"confuse"
],
[
"fluster",
"fluster"
]
],
"qualifier": "chiefly South Midland US",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, colloquial, chiefly South Midland US, Southern US) To confuse or fluster."
],
"tags": [
"Southern-US",
"colloquial",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbʌmfʌzl/",
"note": "uk"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbəmˌfəz(ə)l/",
"note": "us"
}
],
"word": "bumfuzzle"
}
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