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 OneLook Dictionary Search.
Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “BAFFOUND”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →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, Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225

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