becroggle

present singular third person becroggles · participle present becroggling · participle past becroggled · past becroggled

1. datedslanglifestyleTo cause shock or confusion sufficient to cause brief paralysis.

   I'm becroggled. I've never made a pie crust with anything other than butter.

   2005 December 21, Susan, “Re: AKICIF: Cooking. Specifically, shortening substitutes.”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <1135194298.788220.233450@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

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   When I finally figured out that she was asking if I was sad at not winning a Nebula, I was becroggled. I finally found my voice and told her that in twenty-five years of reading and writing science fiction, I had heard a hell of a lot of gauche questions, butthat really took the cake.

   1982, Marion Zimmer Bradley, “Darkover Retrospective”, in The Planet Savers/Sword of Aldones, page 347

   I'm becroggled by the scorn heaped upon the perfectly useful word "salesperson"... but that's neither here nor there.

   1996 September 20, Lee Billings, “Genderless nouns (was Re: English ladies)”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), message-ID <51t4ol$d3h@news.chattanooga.net>