bum squabble

present singular third person bum squabbles · participle present bum squabbling · participle past bum squabbled · past bum squabbled · alternative bum-squabble

1. To discombobulate; to bamboozle or dupe.

   Might be, but to my mind, we bum-squabbled him.

   2019, G.A. Gulick, The Sea of Lost Sons, page 174

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   That African, Moses saw inside a year, was exactly the product of his own way of seeing, as much one of his products and judgments as his choice of tobacco; was, in a sense that both pleased and bum-squabbled the crusty old man, himself: a homunculus, or a distorted shadow, or — as Moses put it to his lady friend Harriet Bridgewater — his own spitting image.

   1986, Charles Johnson, “The Education of Mingo”, in The Sorcerer's Apprentice

   Do you deny the whole scene was contrived to —to bum squabble me?

   1995, Donna Fletcher Crow, Where Love Begins, page 110

   I can tell you of another who is likely to bum squabble you, and that's James Wendover.

   2011, Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep, page 96