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metagrobolize (meh-tuh-GROB-uh-laiz) - v., to puzzle, mystify, confound.


Not a common dialect word, but Kipling did use it in Stalky & Co. Sometimes also used to puzzle over, as in the act of working on solving a puzzle. Coined in 1534 in French by François Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel. , and introduced into English in a 1693 translation.

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