{"id":42242,"date":"2025-05-02T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42242"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:36:56","slug":"word-of-the-day-1035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/05\/02\/word-of-the-day-1035\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flummoxed<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Informal.\u00a0<\/em>utterly bewildered, confused, or puzzled:
\nWhen I walk into a store to buy video equipment and see the multitude of options, I\u2019m befuddled and flummoxed. [Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our source gives 1835 as the oldest known usage; flummoxed<\/em> was certainly old, even out of date, when I was a kid. Noted in “Trump\u2019s familiar routine after failing to cut deals with Congress: Signing legally dubious executive actions<\/em><\/a>,” Toluse Olorunnipa and Ashley Parker, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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The president who pitched himself to voters as the consummate negotiator and ultimate dealmaker has repeatedly found his strategies flummoxed by the complexities and pressures of Washington lawmaking. In response, he has frequently relied on\u00a0showmanship and pageantry<\/a> to try to turn negotiating failures into victories.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This WaPo<\/strong><\/em> article dates from 2020, incidentally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flummoxed: Informal.\u00a0utterly bewildered, confused, or puzzled: When I walk into a store to buy video equipment and see the multitude of options, I\u2019m befuddled and flummoxed. [Dictionary.com] Our source gives 1835 as the oldest known usage; flummoxed was certainly old, even out of date, when I was a kid. Noted \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42243,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242\/revisions\/42243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}