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bamfoozling

bamfoozling is the present participle and gerund of bamfoozle.

Meaning of bamfoozle

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

Questions about bamfoozling

What is bamfoozling the present participle and gerund of?
Bamfoozling is the present participle and gerund of bamfoozle.

Words near bamfoozling in the dictionary

  1. bamethan
  2. bamf
  3. bamfoozle
  4. bamfoozled
  5. bamfoozles
  6. bamfoozling
  7. Bamford
  8. Bamford-Stevens reaction
  9. Bamford-Stevens reactions
  10. bamfordite
  11. Bamfords

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