Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) to discomfit, to perplex, to confuse.

1834		Sun (N.Y.) 21 Mar. 2/3: I’ll tell you what, if you’ll just throw down them are clubs — and come, one to time, may be some of you don’t get discombobracated [DA].
1838		J.C. Neal Charcoal Sketches (1865) 14: While you tear one, you’ll discombobberate the nerves of the other.
1840		T. Haliburton Clockmaker III 287: When it was over, I was so discomboberated.
1850		J.C. Neal Pic-nic Sketches 104: It makes me forget all about it, and discomboberates my ideas.
1867		G.W. Harris Sut Lovingood’s Yarns 254: Don’t talk so loud, Mister Staples; hit discomboberates the court.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.