CABOBBLED ADJ. confused, puzzled, perplexed, mystified ...Bk1823 Eng. dial. & nautical sl. ETYMOLOGY from cabobble (vb. to confuse, to puzzle), from French accabler (to confound, to overwhelm) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1823 - CABOBBLED. confused - puzzled - "Why you wholly cabobble me" From: Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms of That County - Edward Moor EXAMPLE "...Returning by the same way she had enlisted the services of Dunchy, who confessed himself "altogether cabobbled" by the manner in which she was "agoin' on in"...." From: Temple Bar A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers The Eighty-First Volume, September to December, 1887 Loyalty George, By Louisa Parr, Chapter XVI
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