dumfungled
English
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editdumfungled (comparative more dumfungled, superlative most dumfungled)
- (US, regional) Worn out, or being in a state of exhaustion.
- 1885 April 4, “Local Items”, in The Baltimore County Union, volume 36, number 14, Towsonton, Maryland, →ISSN, →LCCN, page 3, column 2:
- —When the County Commissioners—if they ever do—commence to sift the resolutions on the subject of school taxation, they will no doubt become so “dumfungled” as to cause their friends uneasiness as to their ability to pull through safely.
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editFurther reading
edit- Eric Partridge (1970) A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English […], 7th edition, New York: Macmillan, page 248