bambosh

1. slanguncountableHumbug; deceptive nonsense.

   Annie, a willing accomplice once Daisy had told her a tale of bambosh about wishing to approach Lady Sarah to seek employment for a friend, had also divulged that the dowager spent an hour every Thursday afternoon perusing the shelves at Lackington's Bookshop.

   2001, Kathryn Kirkwood, A Townhouse for Tessa, →ISBN, page 103

2. uncountableSilliness and revelry.

   Some Creole observers have described the post-Duvalier period as diyari demokratik (democratic diarrhea) or bambosh demokrasi (revelry of democracy).

   1991, Richard A. Haggerty, Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies, page 340

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   Yes, the bambosh dance is still danced until the dancers, wildly drunk on clairine vanish into the surrounding blackness to capture the partner of their choice.

   2001, Charles H. Baker Jr., Knife, Fork and Spoon: Eating Around the World, →ISBN, page 198

present singular third person bamboshes · participle present bamboshing · participle past bamboshed · past bamboshed

1. slangTo bamboozle; to deceive with nonsense.

   Those who play and pay go to extraordinary lengths to be bamboshed.

   1934, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 238, page 541