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Meaning of bambooze | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
/bæmˈbuːz/

Definitions

Alternative spelling of bamboozle.

alt-of, alternative, dialectal, informal, obsolete, transitive

Examples

““Oh, come now, Jacques,” he grumbles, “ain’t they listed yet, those famous shares of yours ? Your uncle promised to give me a part interest for my wages, but it won’t do for him to bambooze me too long, because I will give him as good as he sends, I will ! I ain’t the sort to be gammoned, I ain’t !””
“As " Here lie the slimsey remains of aristocratic wit: Which shone awhile with uncommon brilliancy: Illuminating the 15 Un. States: Evidently calculated to bambooze the people into a just sense of their dearest rizts; until: Exhausting its glow-worm taper in squibs crackers buffoonery & bombast is now set: In eternal oblivion! "”
“He shadows the regular in his name, the massage operator in his method, and the hypnotist in bamboozing the public.”
“I told him that if he thinks he can bambooze me with any such truck of a notion he was crazy.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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