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- adjective totally perplexed and mixed up
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Examples
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Ha ha … mystified by the last word I looked it up and … am not longer metagrobolized.
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But, on the other hand, the spirit manifests itself sometimes in exuberance, as when Urquhart and Motteux metagrobolized Rabelais into something almost more tumescent and overwhelming than the original.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Again, it certainly looks beautiful, but I'm metagrobolized at how after all the lambasting and throwing under the bus, it's all done with Adobe software.
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Again, it certainly looks beautiful, but I'm metagrobolized at how after all the lambasting and throwing under the bus, it's all done with Adobe software.
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Again, it certainly looks beautiful, but I'm metagrobolized at how after all the lambasting and throwing under the bus, it's all done with Adobe software.
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Come to think of it, we _have_ metagrobolized 'em. "
Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900
RubyWax commented on the word metagrobolized
It is from Rabelais, a French author from late 15th century. It was a common reading during my school days as a young schoolboy.
The old french verb is spelled "matagraboliser" which Rabelais, it is said, invented in his novel "Gargantua".
Quote ....Il y a dix-huit jours que je suis a matagraboliser cette belle harangue..... Eighteen days I toil to matagrabolise this fine harangue .......Unquote
In this instance a burlesque word meaning; To give oneself much trouble for nothing.
This word is the combination of three greek words: mataios (inept), grapho (write), and ballo (throw); matagraboliser in latin would be "ineptas scriptiones emittere".
I found this information in an earlier re-edition of his first novels at my local library.
April 23, 2012
ry commented on the word metagrobolized
cf. blutterbunged, addlepated
January 29, 2015