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Dec 3, 2008
This week's themeAmericanisms This week's words skedaddle absquatulate discombobulate flummadiddle hornswoggle 
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with Anu GargdiscombobulatePRONUNCIATION:
(dis-kuhm-BOB-yuh-layt)
MEANING:
verb tr.:
To disconcert or confuse.
ETYMOLOGY:
Probably from fanciful alteration of discompose or discomfit.
USAGE:
"I don't think we should be messing with time. I have trouble adjusting.
You're not alone. Some people claim they are really discombobulated by
the time change."The Bluffer's Guide: Times Changes; The Gazette (Montreal, Canada); Oct 2, 2008. See more usage examples of discombobulate in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. -Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
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