{"id":2413,"date":"2014-11-20T12:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:24:14","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-bumfuzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-bumfuzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Bumfuzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bumfuzzle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2414\" alt=\"Lost and Confused Signpost\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bumfuzzle-1024x681.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bumfuzzle-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bumfuzzle-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bumfuzzle-190x126.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bumfuzzle-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bumfuzzle-445x295.jpg 445w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bumfuzzle-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bumfuzzle.jpg 1699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does <em>bumfuzzle<\/em> mean?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a transitive verb that means\u00a0confuse; perplex; fluster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you pronounce it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\\\u00a6b\u0259m\u00a6f\u0259z\u0259l\\<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Bumfuzzle<\/em>\u00a0may have begun as\u00a0dumfound, which was then altered first into\u00a0dumfoozle\u00a0and then into\u00a0bumfoozle.\u00a0Dumfound\u00a0(or\u00a0dumbfound)\u00a0remains a common word today, but\u00a0<em>bumfuzzle<\/em>\u00a0unfortunately is extremely rare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example: &#8220;Irish can bumfuzzle any team&#8221; \u2013 headline about the Notre Dame &#8220;Fighting Irish&#8221; football team in the <em>Chicago Tribune <\/em>newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does bumfuzzle mean? It&#8217;s a transitive verb that means\u00a0confuse; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[769,770,773,774,775,1657,776,772,771],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-bumfuzzle","tag-confused","tag-dumbfound","tag-dumfound","tag-fluster","tag-november-2014","tag-perplex","tag-unclear","tag-unsure","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}