Flamboozled

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

- Alexis de Tocqueville -

---

---

I've been known to make up a word or two now and then; it mostly happens when I'm incensed about something, greatly excited or just being a knucklehead.

I think the last one I shared here was fuckzactly which I made up from the two words fucken and exactly. I was emphatically agreeing with a mate of mine over something and both words sort of came out together as fuckzactly...my mate said I was such a dick head...but I've heard him use my word so...who's a dick head no bro?

Anyway, I was chatting with someone on the phone a couple days ago and it happened again...Ok, to be honest it always happens because sometimes the English language just doesn't have words for the things I need to express, but I was particularly happy with the one I made up the other day so I thought I'd share it.

Flamboozled

This word is made up from two others:

• Bamboozle: To cheat or fool

and

• Flabbergasted: Greatly surprised or astonished

Now, I'll admit that both of these words are funny in their own right and I have a sneaking suspicion that someone much like me, a knucklehead, came up with them in the first place. I've taken them to the next level though, G-dogerized them so to speak, and created my own word.

The conversation I was having was about a third party who had gained some really bad advice about cryptocurrency and property investing. I'm not an expert crypto-guy but twenty years working and investing in the property sector, residential and commercial, has left me with a rather strong understanding of it. So, when I heard what this guy was saying, what he's done and proposing to do, based on the advice he was given I was...umm...I was...erm...Fucken flamboozled! I was going to make up the word fuckboozlegasted, but it didn't roll off the tongue as well, although know I've said it a few times it has a certain appeal.

I know, you're probably thinking, that'll never catch on, and to be honest I don't give a toss whether it does or not. It's my word and I'm happy to be the only one to use it. But, I'm not saying you can't use it folks, just that I don't care if you don't.

I think it's really interesting how language evolves and changes with need, time, across socio-economic demographics and world locations; it's really quite an incredible thing. Did you know that there's something like one hundred and ten dialects officially recognised in Vietnam for instance? Amazing right? That's a lot of dudes (just like me) making up a lot of words!

To put that into perspective, below is the map of Australia, where I live, and I've overlayed the country of Vietnam inside it in blue and in scale using this website. All those languages in that little country...That flamboozled me for sure.

Language constantly evolves and we all help it along. Words like advowson, destrier, bespawler and gnashgab have given way to words like selfie, protip, headass and revertigo...it's just the way of things.

So, I guess it's not so strange that I make up words like fuckzactly, somebodyelseie and flamboozled...who knows, maybe in twenty years people will be using them all the time?

Have you ever made up any words? If you have, share them below as I'm always on the look out for great new worderisations.