About The Word Bamboozle
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Bamboozle
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What's The Definition Of Bamboozle?
[v] conceal one's true motives from esp. by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bamboozle: hoodwink | lead by the nose | play false | pull the wool over someone's eyes | snow Related Terms | Find terms related to Bamboozle: addle | amaze | baffle | beat | befool | beguile | betray | bilk | bluff | boggle | buffalo | cajole | cheat on | chicane | circumvent | confound | conjure | daze | deceive | delude | diddle | double-cross | dupe | flimflam | floor | fool | forestall | fuddle | gammon | get | get around | gull | hoax | hocus-pocus | hoodwink | hornswaggle | humbug | juggle | keep in suspense | let down | lick | maze | mock | muddle | mystify | nonplus | outmaneuver | outreach | outsmart | outwit | overreach | perplex | pigeon | play one false | put something over | puzzle | snow | stick | string along | stump | swindle | take in | throw | trick | two-time See Also | betray | deceive | lead astray Bamboozle In Webster's Dictionary \Bam*boo"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bamboozled} (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Bamboozling} (?).] [Said to be of Gipsy
origin.]
To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to
hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [Colloq.] --Addison.
What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you? --J. H.
Newman.
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