I do enjoy words which have a sound which befits their meaning. Discombobulate is one of those very words.
Derivatives of the word include discombobulation and discombobulated. It is thought to be a 19th century jocular alteration of the word discompose or discomfit. Its meaning is to disturb, upset or disconcert. A ‘discombobulating thought’ is therefore one which could be said ‘makes your brain hurt’.
The periodic, eclectic and sometimes eccentric, cerebral meanderings of an aspirant polymath.
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