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bambosh

bambosh noun: humbug; deceptive nonsense.

Noun

bambosh (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Humbug; deceptive nonsense.
    • Annie, a willing accomplice once Daisy had told her a tale of bambosh about wishing to approach Lady Sarah to seek employment for a friend, had also divulged that the dowager spent an hour every Thursday afternoon perusing the shelves at Lackington's Bookshop.2001, Kathryn Kirkwood, A Townhouse for Tessa, →ISBN, page 103
  2. Silliness and revelry.
    • Some Creole observers have described the post-Duvalier period as diyari demokratik (democratic diarrhea) or bambosh demokrasi (revelry of democracy).1991, Richard A. Haggerty, Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies, page 340
    • Yes, the bambosh dance is still danced until the dancers, wildly drunk on clairine vanish into the surrounding blackness to capture the partner of their choice.2001, Charles H. Baker Jr., Knife, Fork and Spoon: Eating Around the World, →ISBN, page 198

Verb

bambosh (third-person singular simple present bamboshes, present participle bamboshing, simple past and past participle bamboshed)

  1. (slang) To bamboozle; to deceive with nonsense.
    • Those who play and pay go to extraordinary lengths to be bamboshed.1934, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 238, page 541

bambosh meaning in Bengali

bambosh in Bengali

প্রতারণাপূর্ণ জেদ, বাজে কথা, প্রতারণা করা, বাজে কথা দিয়ে ঠকানো

Forms of bambosh

third-person singular presentbamboshes
present participlebamboshing
past participlebamboshed
pastbamboshed

Origin of bambosh

From bamboozle and bosh.

Questions about bambosh

What does bambosh mean?
Bambosh means humbug; deceptive nonsense.
What is bambosh in Bengali?
Bambosh in Bengali is প্রতারণাপূর্ণ জেদ, বাজে কথা, প্রতারণা করা. See Bambosh meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is bambosh?
Bambosh can be a noun or a verb.

Words near bambosh in the dictionary

  1. bamboozlers
  2. bamboozlery
  3. bamboozles
  4. bamboozling
  5. bamboozlingly
  6. bambosh
  7. bamboshed
  8. bamboshes
  9. bamboshing
  10. bambou
  11. bamboula

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