Screenshot of the dillo browser displaying the url https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=discombobulate and the following text: Columns Forum Apps Premium Advertisement Want to remove ads? Log in to see fewer ads, and become a Premium Member to remove all ads. 3 entries found. discombobulate(v.) "to upset, embarrass," 1834, discombobricate, American English, fanciful mock-Latin coinage of a type popular then. Compare, on a similar pattern, confusticate (1852), absquatulate (1840), spifflicate "confound, beat" (1850), toploftical "pompous, bombastic" (1823), undercumstumble "understand" (1824), scrumplicate "eat" (1890). Related: discombobulating; discombobulation. Related entries & more Advertisement Want to remove ads? Log in to see fewer ads, and become a Premium Member to remove all ads. discombobulated(adj.) 1834 (as discombobracated); see discombobulate. Related entries & more confusticate(v.) "confound, confuse," 1852, a fantastical mock-Latin American English coinage from confound or confuse, originally in "Negro dialect" passages in works such as "J. Thornton Randolph's" pro-slavery "The Cabin and Parlor" (1852, a response to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), picked up in London publications by the 1860s. Similar formations include confubuscate, conflabberated, etc., and compare discombobulate. Related: Confusticated; confusticating. Related entries & more