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Fanciful variant of discompose, discomfit, etc., originally discombobricate. The -bob- interfix may come from bobbery, meaning “commotion, noise”. First attested in 1834 in the United States.
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discombobulate
dis·com·bob·u·lateToday it means: To throw into a state of confusion; to befuddle or perplex. Full definition →