flummox n.
1. a failure.
![]() | College Words (rev. edn) 205: flummux. Any failure is called a flummux. | |
![]() | Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | ‘Central Connecticut Word-List’ in DN III:i 9: flummox, n. A failure. |
2. confusion, ‘a state’.
![]() | ‘’Arry on the Battle of Life’ in Punch 21 Sept. in (2006) 137: If you find as yer foe’s in a flummox, will you risk the win and tin. |