baffound
English
Etymology
From blend of baffle + confound.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæˈfaʊnd/
- Rhymes: -aʊnd
Verb
baffound (third-person singular simple present baffounds, present participle baffounding, simple past and past participle baffounded)
- To perplex, bewilder.
References
- “BAFFOUND” in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1898, →OCLC.
- Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016), “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future, Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225