Googling for a word I hadn't heard in 40 years, I found this:



    Befuddling
      
    To the editor:
      I just couldn't resist using the knowledge I gained from your Nov. 8 paper. James J. Kilpatrick's Writer's Art column has been a constant favorite of mine. This edition of his column, which dealt with interesting words now out of fashion, should have been published before the elections just to add fodder for the election writers. Shall we try one on Bill Clinton? While Mr. Clinton is faunching about the puckersnatch he has created, he must surely be paddybassing around his own private pokelogan. The rest of us are just waiting for him to scallyhoot out of office.
      My spell check system almost had a seizure writing this.
    LINDA K. WOOD
    Las Vegas