| 释义 |
confusticate, v. colloq.|kənˈfʌstɪkeɪt|
Also confuscate.
[Fantastic alteration of confound v. or confuse v.]
To confuse, confound, perplex. So conˈfusticated ppl. a.
1891Farmer Slang, Confusticate verb (American), to confuse. 1898Wright Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. confuscated, For wunse i' mi' līëf ahm reight confuscaäted. 1926C. L. Graves Hubert Parry II. 113 He would at once begin to talk in schoolboy slang..interlarding his remarks with such words as ‘awfully’, ‘confusticated’. 1937J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit i. 21 Confusticate and bebother those dwarves! |