Citations:confuzzle
English citations of confuzzle, confuzzles, confuzzling, and confuzzled
verb
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- 1993 May 19, Stephen Kellogg, from cedarville.edu, “Re: God and cookies and rock'n'roll”, rec.music.christian, Usenet
- Why is it that the same people that accuse Petra of not being "real" rock music are also the same people that accuse them of being replicas of big-time rock bands? It confuzzles me...
- 1996 March 22, Gary Faber, “Danny Kaye (was Re: CORFLU 13 Update)”, rec.arts.sf.fandom, Usenet
- No, I was just confuzzled. You are absolutely correct, and I was absolutely wrong.
- 1996 September 22, Colin F. Reynolds, from Chesterfield (UK), “Re: Don't Write For one Browser...”, comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Usenet
- In my experience, there's a fine line to be walked between giving the client enough information on the one hand and overdosing him/her on the other, to the point where they're so confuzzled they can't make a decision :(
- 1997 August 25, Christian Conti, from wfu.edu, “Re: What's the most disturbing movie you've seen?”, alt.cult-movies, Usenet
- I was already in a religious conflict when I saw this film, and it only served to confuzzle me even more.
- 1997 November 15, D. Jean Cooper, “Re: Mistake or twin?”, rec.arts.comics.elfquest, Usenet
- That's Richard for ya. Confuzzle the issue all the way around. Personally, I think it was a mistake and he's trying to cover for it. <G>
- 1999 June 19, Ivy Saris Formlocke, “Re: Sleepy Hollow pics in VanityFair”, alt.gothic.fashion, Usenet
- I live near Sleepy Hollow. We used to go to Wahington Irving's house on school trips. Sunnyside, I think. All the big old houses have funky names that confuzzle me. Oh well.
- 2000 March 17, Matthew Sutton, from vips.com.au, “MY ASP SOLUTION”, interbase.public.general, Usenet
- To get around the whole ADO connection, well that one still confuzzles me. But what my COM object uses is an ODBC Direct workspace, which can connect [to the] Interbase Database.
- 2000 May 2, Dave Proctor, from ozemail.com.au, “Re: Rule question - kicking for goal.”, aus.sport.aussie-rules, Usenet
- It always confuzzles players when that happens - the braindead blows his whistle all of a sudden, and they all look around. Good for a larf amongst those who know what is happening. :-)
- 2001 March 10, Michael Chilson, “A newbie's update (upgrading KDE)”, alt.os.linux.caldera, Usenet
- Now I am working on upgrading the KDE window manager, and the README doesn't offer any additional assistance and the group's FAQ slightly confuzzles me.
- 2002 January 12, Helen Deborah Vecht, from zetnet.co.uk, “Re: Toilet paper”, uk.rec.sheds, Usenet
- We went to Llandrindod Wells but said town are xabja [sic.] as just Llandrindod in Railwayspeak. We wooden wantta [wouldn't want to] confuzzle ticketdroid, wwd we?
- 2002 February 16, Thomas Rushton, from totalise.co.uk, “Re: .”, uk.rec.sheds, Usenet
- I've lived here for ooh a coupla decades now, and I still can't find my way around the city centre. I think they change the one way system every half a fortnight, just to keep us all confuzzled.
- 2002 September, Tom Halfhill, “ATI to nVida: Gotcha!”, Maximum PC, ISSN 1522-4279, page 12
- A videocard that’s limited to simple integer calculations will round this up to an even 2, creating imprecision that will confuzzle the rest of the math down the pipeline
- 2005, James P. Caher and John M. Caher, Personal Bankruptcy Laws for Dummies, For Dummies (publisher), →ISBN, page 224
- If you neglected to file a return, filed it late, submitted a fraudulent return, or otherwise evaded taxes, you've really confuzzled things.
- 2007 March, Nicola Denzey, “Biblical Allusions, Biblical Illusions: Hollywood Blockbuster and Scripture”, SBL Forum, volume 5, number 3, Society of Biblical Literature [1]
- Those who did see it were patently confused by it. Representative comments on internet message boards for Frailty include: […] "I am totally confuzzled."
- 2007 April 1, “Prize patrol: top 10 secrets to winning swag from GL!”, Girls’ Life Magazine, Monarch Avalon, Inc.
- Feeling confuzzled about how to enter (or win!) GL's daily giveaways? Here's the fine print.
- 2008, Dakota Cassidy, The Accidental Werewolf, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 12
- Where she’d ever gotten the idea that a bully like Nina could sell makeup to women left her confuzzled. For a split second, Marty doubted herself.
- 2008, Bruce Henricksen, After the Floods, Lost Hills Books, →ISBN, page 118
- “This ball just landed in my yard,” he said. “You know anything about that?”
- “Confuzzles me,” I said. “ […] I didn’t know baseballs drop out of the sky.”