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bamfoozle

bamfoozle verb: to confound; to perplex.

Verb

bamfoozle (third-person singular simple present bamfoozles, present participle bamfoozling, simple past and past participle bamfoozled)

  1. (colloquial) To confound; to perplex.
    • "'I kin see no other chance, cap'n, than ter take the water: we may bamfoozle the houn's a bit, if thar's good wadin'.'"1899, Mayne Reid, “Chapter XLIV, A New and Terrible Enemy”, in The Rifle Rangers, F. M. Lupton Pub. Co., page 294
    • "'Bamfoozle de hounds and may def cut off dare scent.'"1902, Simon Miltimore Dufur, “Chapter XIV”, in Over the Dead Line, Free Press Association, page 176

Forms of bamfoozle

third-person singular presentbamfoozles
present participlebamfoozling
past participlebamfoozled
pastbamfoozled

Origin of bamfoozle

Variant of bamboozle, possibly influenced by confuse; see Cassell's Dictionary of Slang.

Questions about bamfoozle

What does bamfoozle mean?
Bamfoozle means to confound; to perplex.
What part of speech is bamfoozle?
Bamfoozle is a verb.
What is the past tense of bamfoozle?
The past tense of bamfoozle is bamfoozled.

Words near bamfoozle in the dictionary

  1. BAME
  2. BAMEH
  3. Bames
  4. bamethan
  5. bamf
  6. bamfoozle
  7. bamfoozled
  8. bamfoozles
  9. bamfoozling
  10. Bamford
  11. Bamford-Stevens reaction

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