{"id":64967,"date":"2017-09-05T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=64967"},"modified":"2017-09-05T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T07:09:06","slug":"bumfuzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/64967","title":{"rendered":"Bumfuzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhat the heck? What kind of a word is this? It sounds like the name of a Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere, Lord Bumfuzzle, let\u2019s trim the fluff before the talent portion!\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64970\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64970\" class=\"wp-image-64970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pomeranian.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"298\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-64970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by Blackoranges via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, if you\u2019re confused, you\u2019re not far off from the actual description.<\/p>\n<p>Origin: <em>Bumfuzzle<\/em>\u00a0comes from\u00a0<em>bum-<\/em>, an expressive prefix, perhaps to be identified with the initial syllable of\u00a0<em>bamboozle<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>fuzzle<\/em>\u00a0\u201cto confuse,\u201d perhaps expressive alteration of fuddle. It\u2019s been used in English since around 1900.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definitions for\u00a0bumfuzzle<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><em>Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S<\/em>., to confuse or fluster.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis holyfied lady&#8217;s jest tryin&#8217; to\u00a0<strong>bumfuzzle<\/strong>\u00a0us.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Joan Hess,\u00a0<em>Mischief in Maggody<\/em>, 1988<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an attempt to\u00a0<strong>bumfuzzle<\/strong>,&#8221; said the President.<br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0William Safire,\u00a0&#8220;On Language: The Way We Live Now,&#8221;\u00a0<em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>, November 14, 1999<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the heck? What kind of a word is this? It sounds like the name of a Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show winner. \u201cHere, Lord Bumfuzzle, let\u2019s trim the fluff before the talent portion!\u201d Well, if you\u2019re confused, you\u2019re not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/64967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/64967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}