See Also: flummox(dictionary)

Centuriator (iou) and flummox (iou)


Centuriator (iou)



Centuriator noun. M17.
[mod. Latin, formed as CENTURIATE verb: see -OR.]
Hist. Any of a number of 16th-cent. Protestant divines who compiled a thirteen-volume Church History of which each volume embraced a century. More fully Centuriator of Magdeburg. Usu. in pl.

flummox (iou)



flummox verb. colloq. Also flummux. M19.
[Prob. dial., imit.]
verb trans. Bewilder, confuse, confound, perplex, disconcert. M19.
M. Amis I sat flummoxed and muttering like a superannuated ghost. absol.: L. MacNeice Voices that flummox and fool.
verb intrans. Give in, give up, collapse. US. M19.
D. P. Thompson If he should flummox at such a chance, I know of a chap..who'll agree to take his place.