We call Harry over who listens for a voice, saying “Hello, hello whoever you are”, into the mouth piece before passing it back with a you-got-me expression.
“Funny guys.”
He sees we’re not laughing.
“I’m in perplexion. Who was that?” asks Harry with a baffled expression.
I check the cell and the line’s dead.
Excerpt from chapter 29 of "Sixteen stories, no pets" by C.J. Beck
“Funny guys.”
He sees we’re not laughing.
“I’m in perplexion. Who was that?” asks Harry with a baffled expression.
I check the cell and the line’s dead.
Excerpt from chapter 29 of "Sixteen stories, no pets" by C.J. Beck
by C.J. Beck, author of novel 'Spiked' April 25, 2006
Get the perplexion mug.-noun, from the English perplex and lexicon
1. Collectively, all words with which one is familiar but is unable to define.
2. Words that one would commonly be expected to know based on his or her education or socio-economic class but does not.
3. Particular words, generally of an erudite nature, which one finds perpetually befuddling despite previous attempts to ascertain their meaning.
1. Collectively, all words with which one is familiar but is unable to define.
2. Words that one would commonly be expected to know based on his or her education or socio-economic class but does not.
3. Particular words, generally of an erudite nature, which one finds perpetually befuddling despite previous attempts to ascertain their meaning.
"No matter how many times I look up fecundity in the dictionary, it always seems to slip back into my perplexicon by the time I next encounter it."
"Four years of college and I all I have to show for it is a massively inflated perplexicon!"
"Four years of college and I all I have to show for it is a massively inflated perplexicon!"
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