Bamboozle
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To deceive by trickery, hoax, cozen, impose upon.
To practise trickery.
To mystify, perplex, confound.
Historical examples:
1866 G. MACDONALD Ann. Q. Neighb. ix. 143 You wouldn’t even bamboozle a little at a bazaar.
1854 MRS. GASKELL North & S. xl, He fairly bamboozles me. He is two chaps.
1716 ROWE Biter I. i. 19 You intend to bambouzle me out of a Beef Stake.
1728 EARBERY tr. Burnet’s St. Dead I. 89 The Gnosticks bambouzled away all the Corporeal resurrection.
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