bedaffled
English
Etymology
Blend of bedazzled + baffled.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɪˈdæfl̩d/
Verb
bedaffled
- simple past tense and past participle of bedaffle
Adjective
bedaffled (comparative more bedaffled, superlative most bedaffled)
- Both dazzled and baffled.
- 2001, David R. Ambos, Letters from the Nude Lake and Other Historic Monuments, page 245:
- She squinched her face, bedaffled.
- 2010, Patrice Kindl, Goose Chase, page 8:
- O, I know very well what you are thinking: "The poor maid must be bedaffled in the brain to entrust all her fortune to a man like that!"