different between confounded vs betwattled

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?fa?nd?d/
• Hyphenation: con?found?ed

Verb

confounded

1. simple past tense and past participle of confound

Adjective

confounded (comparative more confounded, superlative most confounded)

1. confused, astonished
2. defeated, thwarted

   • Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night

     To mortal men, he with his horrid crew

     Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe

     Confounded though immortal: […]

3. damned, accursed, bloody

Derived terms

• confoundedly

Translations

References

• “confounded”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• deconfound

English

Alternative forms

• betwaddled

Etymology

Late 18th century Dorset British slang for confused, bewildered. From be- +? twattle (“to talk”) +? -ed.

Adjective

betwattled (comparative more betwattled, superlative most betwattled)

1. (archaic, West Country) surprised, confounded, befuddled, to be in a distressed state of mind.

Verb

betwattled

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of betwattle

References

• A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English, John S. Farmer and W. E. Henly, 1905. Betwaddled. Retrieved from archive.org
• Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire, Williams and Jones, 1873. Betwaddled. Retrieved online.
• Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[2], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 253