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FLUMMUX

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Flummux (To). To bamboozle, to deceive; to be in a quandary. "I am regularly flummuxed" - i.e. perplexed. The first syllable is probably a variant of flam, humbug, deception, and the word seems to be compounded on the model of the word "perplex."
"For the privates, the sergeants, and 'spectors,
She flummuxed them all to a coon."
Sims: Dagonet Ballads (Moll Jarvis). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FLUMMUX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-l-m-m-u-u-x"

-3 letters: flux, mumu.

-4 letters: flu, lum, lux, mum, ulu, umm.

-5 letters: mm, mu, um, xu.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FLUMMUX


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 4C 55 4D 4D 55 58

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004C 0055 004D 004D 0055 0058

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40465547475558

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