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bumfuzzle.

To confuse or fluster.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈbʌmfʌzl//ˈbəmˌfəz(ə)l/
  1. To confuse or fluster.

    Southern-US · colloquial · transitive
Where this word comes from

Probably an alteration of fuzzled (“confused, intoxicated”), with the colloquial intensifier prefix bum-. First attested in 19th-century U.S. dialect.

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