'Bamboozle' definitions:
Definition of 'bamboozle'
(from WordNet)
verb
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: bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false]
Definition of 'Bamboozle'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'bamboozle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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