Green’s Dictionary of Slang

unsettled, out of sorts.

1871		Yale Lit. Mag. June 402: He was tossed up and down in the cruel blanket, until brains and bowels were both ‘discombobulated’.
1893		Guthrie Dly Leader (OK) 14 Nov. 2/4: I was so discomfuddled that i justblurted out ‘Well, I’ll be d—d’.
1903		Bemidji Dly Pioneer 12 Nov. 4/3: He was brough to the attention of the police about 6 o’clock [...] in a badly discombobulated condition.
1909		Forum 42 150: But energy differs from haste as the poised and vital swiftness of the fleeing cat from the fluttering scurry of the discombobulated hen.
1918		Sun (NY) 1 Aug. 14/2: The great duel between Vincent Gaffney in his underwear and the discombobulated police.
1949–51		in M. Daly Profile of Youth 232: If a girl looks ‘discomboomerated’ (tired) after a date, she may explain, ‘I was playing tiddly winks with manhole covers’.
1957		Cosmopolitan (NY) 142 103/2: ‘Well, well.’ Turee said [...] ‘It seems as though we were getting all discombobulated for nothing ’.
1970		‘Ellery Queen’ Last Woman 17: I don’t want you people to be in any way discombobulated [OED].
1978		P. Theroux Picture Palace 228: But this modern junk! Rotting candy, discombobulated people, Cubists with rulers!
1981		M. Baker Nam (1982) 190: I’m all alone and I was feeling discombobulated.
1992		K. Lette Llama Parlour 234: As used as he was to special effects [...] he was completely discombobulated.
2003		A.N. LeBlanc Random Family 215: Pearl’s illness made her feel even more discombobulated than usual.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 19: Frankly, I’m discombobulated.