ppl. adj. (thieves’ and general).—1.  Spoilt; ruined; drunk; SENT DOWN (q.v.); BOSHED (q.v.); defeated; disappointed; silenced; FLOORED (q.v.).

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  1836.  DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, ch. xxxiii., p. 283. ‘And my ’pinion is, Sammy, that if your governor don’t prove an alleybi, he’ll be what the Italians call reg’larly FLUMMOXED, and that’s all about it.’

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  1840.  C. WHIBLEY, ed. In Cap and Gown, p. 170.

        So many of the men I know
Were ‘FLUMMOX’D’ at the last great-go.

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  1861.  H. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, Puck on Pegasus, p. 17. I felt FLUMMOX’D in a brown (study understood) old fellow.

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  1864.  Cornhill Magazine, Dec., p. 742. ‘I say, Tom.’ ‘Yes, mate.’ ‘If I should have a fit heave a bucket of water over me.’ Tom was too astonished, or, as he expressed it, CONFLUMMOXED to make any reply.

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  1883.  Daily Telegraph, 25 July, p. 2, col. 1. I’ll give Tom his due, and say of him that for FLUMMOXING a cuss (Custom House Officer) or working the weed, I don’t know any one he couldn’t give a chalk to and beat ’em.

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  1890.  Punch, 30 Aug., p. 97. I’m fair FLUMMOXED, and singing, ‘Oh, what a surprise!’

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