zum Kuckuck wünschen — meaning in English

English meaning

• confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.

Senses

zum Kuckuck wünschen is used for these senses in English:

• confound To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
• confound To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
• confound To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.

confound — full definition

1. verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
2. verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
3. verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
4. noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").

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