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bamboshing

bamboshing is the present participle and gerund of bambosh.

Meaning of bambosh

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

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Questions about bamboshing

What is bamboshing the present participle and gerund of?
Bamboshing is the present participle and gerund of bambosh.

Words near bamboshing in the dictionary

  1. bamboozling
  2. bamboozlingly
  3. bambosh
  4. bamboshed
  5. bamboshes
  6. bamboshing
  7. bambou
  8. bamboula
  9. bamboulas
  10. Bambra
  11. bambu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bamboshing (page history and authors); bambosh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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