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This week's theme Americanisms This week's words skedaddle absquatulate discombobulate flummadiddle hornswoggle Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Give a gift that ... keeps on giving, all year long: A gift subscription of AWAD Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg discombobulate PRONUNCIATION: (dis-kuhm-BOB-yuh-layt) MEANING: verb tr.: To disconcert or confuse. ETYMOLOGY: Probably from fanciful alteration of discompose or discomfit. USAGE: "I don't think we should be messing with time. I have trouble adjusting. You're not alone. Some people claim they are really discombobulated by the time change." The Bluffer's Guide: Times Changes; The Gazette (Montreal, Canada); Oct 2, 2008. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. -Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)

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