Category: Word of the Day – B

ETYMOLOGY
– ? from bumfuddled,
? from bamboozle

EXAMPLE
“…Well, father, I thought he’d a fainted too, he was so struck up all of a heap, he was completely bung fungered; dear, dear, said he, I didn’t think it would come to pass so soon, but I knew it would come; I foretold it…”

From: The Clockmaker
or The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick,
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1836

ETYMOLOGY
– ? a cross between blib (a weak, watery portion, as of tea, etc.) and ribbons

EXAMPLE
“…Now, Jenny, min’, nae blibbans in the kail the day.”

From: Supplement to Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary, 1887