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> Technically, that is not an example of passive voice. "Flummoxed" is an
> adjective.
You'd better watch it -- I just
might flummox you.
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The NEW OXFORD Dictionary of ENGLISH
flummox verb
informal perplex (someone) greatly; bewilder.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: probably of dialect origin; flummock to make untidy,
confuse is recorded in western counties and the north Midlands.
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