bamboozles

Verb

bamboozle (third-person singular simple present bamboozles, present participle bamboozling, simple past and past participle bamboozled)

1. (informal, transitive) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
   • “Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
2. (informal, transitive) To confuse, frustrate or perplex.
   • He's completely bamboozled by the changes in the computer system.

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