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Get the Word of the Day – ferhoodle

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Definitions

to confuse or mix up: Don’t ferhoodle teethings in that drawer.

Citations

Honestly, what I’m learning ferhoodles me at times, trying to understand how these English think. 

-Beverly Lewis, The Brethren2006

Origin

Ferhoodle comes from the Pennsylvania German term verhuddle meaning “to tangle” and is related to the German word verhudeln meaning “to bungle, botch.”

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