baffound
English edit
Etymology edit
From blend of baffle + confound.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
baffound (third-person singular simple present baffounds, present participle baffounding, simple past and past participle baffounded)
- To perplex, bewilder.
References edit
- “baffound”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “BAFFOUND”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225