Found 3 hits - Term: bamboozle, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bamboozle \bamboo"zle\ ba^mb=oo"z'l, v. t. imp. p. p.
bamboozled ba^mb=oo"z'ld; p. pr. vb. n.
bamboozling ba^mb=oo"zli^ng. said to be of gipsy
origin.
to deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to
hoax; to mystify; to humbug. colloq. --addison.
1913 webster
what oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you? --j. h.
newman.
1913 webster
see also:
bamboozled bamboozling
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
bamboozle
v : conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately
feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "he
bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the
subject well" syn: snow, hoodwink, pull the wool
over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
see also:
snow hoodwink pull the wool over someone's eyes lead by the nose play false
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
65 moby thesaurus words for "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
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