Word nerd time.

I tried to look up the origin of flummoxed. It's use started in the Midlands of England about 1832, and is suspected to be a dialect word of the area. However, I also found this.

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Where did the word flummoxed originate from?

Get this: linguists are actually mystified as to where the word flummox comes from — they're flummoxed, in other words. It may come from an old English word, flummock, meaning "to make untidy or confuse," but no one is really sure.

Linguists are flummoxed where the world flummox comes from? WTF? I think the linguists and or author of this passage are being wusses here. 😁