Bamboozle

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bamboozle \Bam*boo"zle\ (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"z'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Bamboozled} (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"z'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Bamboozling} (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"zl[i^]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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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