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discombobulate, v. U.S. joc.|dɪskəmˈbɒbjʊleɪt|
Also discomboberate and other variants.
[Prob. jocular alteration of discompose or discomfit.]
trans. To disturb, upset, disconcert. So discomˈbobulated ppl. a.; discombobuˈlation, upset, embarrassment.
1834Sun (N.Y.) 21 Mar. 2/3 May be some of you don't get discombobracated. 1838J. C. Neal Charcoal Sk. 14 While you tear the one, you'll discombobberate the nerves of the other. 1839Spirit of Times 16 Mar. 24/2 Finally, Richmond was obliged to trundle him, neck and heels, to the earth, to the utter discombobulation of his wig. 1926R. Frost Let. 11 Feb. (1964) 178, I put my own discombobulation first to lead up unnoticably to yours. 1943Sat. Rev. Lit. 23 Jan. 9/1 President Roosevelt's sarcastic reply, when asked as to the wisdom of raising an army too large to be supplied from the home-front, in terms of ‘discombobulating the domestic economy’. 1957M. Millar Soft Talkers ii. 21 It seems as though we were getting all discombobulated for nothing. 1962R. P. Blackmur in E. Hubler et al. Riddle of Shakespeare's Sonnets 138 The hues attract, draw, steal men's eyes, but penetrate, discombobolate, amaze the souls or psyches of women. 1970‘E. Queen’ Last Woman i. 17, I don't want you people to be in any way discombobulated. |