perplimere.
to perplex
Meaning & usage
to perplex
Where this word comes from
Back-formation from perplesso (“perplexed, puzzled”), coined in the early 1990s by Italian satirical actor and comedian Corrado Guzzanti, following the verb pattern comprimere (“to compress”) → compresso (“compressed”), deprimere (“to depress”) → depresso (“depressed”), esprimere (“to express”) → espresso (“expressed”), etc. The actually expected result would be perplettere.
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