metagrobolized
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prettygoodwordmetagrobolized (me-tuh-GRAWB-uh-laiz) - (rare, humorous) adj., perplexed, mixed-up, mystified.
Past participle of a verb, to metagrobolize. This is older than I thought -- it was coined in French by Rabelais (c.1490-1553) as matagraboliser, to mystify, from Ancient Greek root mátaios, vain/futile, but when in early translation (c.1700) the first element was altered to meta-, possibly because that was more familiar.
I love the feel of this in the mouth. Metagrobolized.
---L.
Past participle of a verb, to metagrobolize. This is older than I thought -- it was coined in French by Rabelais (c.1490-1553) as matagraboliser, to mystify, from Ancient Greek root mátaios, vain/futile, but when in early translation (c.1700) the first element was altered to meta-, possibly because that was more familiar.
I love the feel of this in the mouth. Metagrobolized.
---L.
