WORD OF THE DAY: CABOBBLED

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