bambooze

present singular third person bamboozes · participle present bamboozing · participle past bamboozed · past bamboozed

1. alternativedialectalinformalobsoletetransitiveAlternative spelling of bamboozle.

   I told him that if he thinks he can bambooze me with any such truck of a notion he was crazy.

   1934 September 29, Carson Seeley, Writer's Digest, volume 14, number 10, page 40

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   “Oh, come now, Jacques,” he grumbles, “ain’t they listed yet, those famous shares of yours ? Your uncle promised to give me a part interest for my wages, but it won’t do for him to bambooze me too long, because I will give him as good as he sends, I will ! I ain’t the sort to be gammoned, I ain’t !”

   1893, André Theuriet, chapter XII, in E. P. Robins, transl., My Uncle Scipio, New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, pages 209-210

   As " Here lie the slimsey remains of aristocratic wit: Which shone awhile with uncommon brilliancy: Illuminating the 15 Un. States: Evidently calculated to bambooze the people into a just sense of their dearest rizts; until: Exhausting its glow-worm taper in squibs crackers buffoonery & bombast is now set: In eternal oblivion! "

   1899, “7 of Jonathan Delano”, in Joel Andrew Delano, compiler, Genealogy of Delano: 1621 - 1899, volumes 4-6, page 426

   He shadows the regular in his name, the massage operator in his method, and the hypnotist in bamboozing the public.

   1906 November 29, “Osteopathy”, in J. W. Jervey, editor, Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association, page 292