Meaning of bum squabble | Babel Free

Definitions

To discombobulate; to bamboozle or dupe.

Examples

“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 his lady friend Harriet Bridgewater — his own spitting image.”

“Do you deny the whole scene was contrived to —to bum squabble me?”

“I can tell you of another who is likely to bum squabble you, and that's James Wendover.”

“Might be, but to my mind, we bum-squabbled him.”

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