bum squabble

Verb

bum squabble (third-person singular simple present bum squabbles, present participle bum squabbling, simple past and past participle bum squabbled)

1. To discombobulate; to bamboozle or dupe.
   • That African, Moses saw inside a year, was exactly the product of his own way of seeing, as much one of his products and judgments as his choice of tobacco; was, in a sense that both pleased and bum-squabbled the crusty old man, himself: a homunculus, or a distorted shadow, or — as Moses put it to...1986, Charles Johnson, “The Education of Mingo”, in The Sorcerer's Apprentice
   • Do you deny the whole scene was contrived to —to bum squabble me?1995, Donna Fletcher Crow, Where Love Begins, page 110