On Getting Jargogled

Another archaic word of the week.

The archaic word of the week is jargogle. It means to "confuse or jumble up." Its origin, best we know, was first spotted in the writings of John Locke in the 1600's. Just in case you want to use it in conversation, here are some examples:

"I tried to assemble IKEA furniture without the manual and ended up with a chair that jargogled itself into a modern art sculpture."

"My grandma's explanation of how to use TikTok completely jargogled me, she still thinks it's a clock app."

"After watching three conspiracy theory videos in a row, my brain was so jargogled I put on a tin foil hat."

"The company's "simple onboarding process" jargogled to the point that I accidentally applied for my own job twice."

"My GPS jargogled the directions so much, I ended up at a goat yoga retreat instead of my dentist's office. I'm not sure which was more painful!"

By the way, the Urban Dictionary features a more modern use of a derivative of this word, Jargoogle, which means "to accidentally mistype a word or phrase into a search engine box and be confused, surprised or horrified by the results."

Been there, done that.

There's a whole list of things that got me all jargogled. I'm sure you have a list too.

I was going to share mine, but then again, I don’t want to add to the confusion.