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The Cloud Concise Dictionary of Sparkling and Strange Words presents;
Metagrobolize.
Pronunciation:
meta·grob·o·lize transitive verb \ˌmetəˈgräbəˌlīz\
Variants: metagrobalise, metagrabalise, metagrabalize.
Definition:
1. To puzzle or mystify.
2. To perplex or mix up.
3. Full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment.
Example:
“perplexed language”; “perplexed state of the metagrobolized – totally perplexed and mixed up; “all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized”– Wall Street Journal
Etymology:
From the obsolete French metagraboulizer, matagraboliser, from Middle French matagraboliser, matagroboliser.
Esme's Cloud 
Heavens to metagrobalize! What a word! Did you know that Heavens to Murgatroyd was a variant of Heavens to Betsy? That’s what they say. Sounds like nonsense to me, but I’m easily metagrabolized! Ha. I used the word from your post in a comment on that post. clever boy
– The Prescient who Flounders
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It’s marvellous isn’t it?! I did know that, that that you know too. My father has always been a great fan of proclaiming “Heavens to Murgatroyd!” (not a word about Betsy), and this may well be due to his love of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera ‘Ruddigore’ which features several characters who all claim that very name. I myself have hidden in the Cloud’s vaults a set of ancient ‘His Master’s Voice’ records of that particular production on 78’s no less, found in a charity store some years ago for a matter of pence. I cannot stand the music at all, it is abominable, however the objects themselves, the vinyl, were too good to miss. As I have a gramophone, I can happily not listen to them whenever I so please.
Well done with the use of metagrobolize! Few could manage to slip said word in so seamlessly.
You have signed yourself as half-fish. I ‘cod’ have sworn this was not the case. Perhaps I do not know my ‘plaice’. I know, I know, I am the ‘sole’ of wit. Ahem.
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It sure is a strange word…
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Yes, I enjoy the stranger elements of the English language, and sharing my finds with those interested. Thank you for popping over to the Cloud and commenting Pondering Mind.
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‘Meta’ is always associated with a hodgepodge of something…
But to use it to express a puzzling event?! Wow…. just wow! 🙂
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‘Hodgepodge’ entitles you to an extra wow on top too 😀
-sonmicloud
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