Associations to the word «Bamboozle»

Wiktionary

BAMBOOZLE, verb. (informal) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.

Dictionary definition

BAMBOOZLE, verb. Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope