bamfoozle

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verb

To confound; to perplex.

Scrabble 25
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Meanings

verbbamfoozle (third-person singular simple present bamfoozles, present participle bamfoozling, simple past and past participle bamfoozled)

present singular third person bamfoozles · participle present bamfoozling · participle past bamfoozled · past bamfoozled

  1. colloquialTo confound; to perplex.

    "'Bamfoozle de hounds and may def cut off dare scent.'"

    1902, Simon Miltimore Dufur, “Chapter XIV”, in Over the Dead Line, Free Press Association, page 176
    2 more examples

    "'I kin see no other chance, cap'n, than ter take the water: we may bamfoozle the houn's a bit, if thar's good wadin'.'"

    1899, Mayne Reid, “Chapter XLIV, A New and Terrible Enemy”, in The Rifle Rangers, F. M. Lupton Pub. Co., page 294

    "Then why try to fool and flimflam and bamfoozle a jury of Jackson county men?"

    1919, The Southwestern Reporter, vol. 211, West Publishing Co., page 46

Origin

Variant of bamboozle, possibly influenced by confuse; see Cassell's Dictionary of Slang.

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APA

bamfoozle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bamfoozle

MLA

“bamfoozle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bamfoozle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bamfoozle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bamfoozle.

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