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Bamboozled vs Bamfoozled - What's the difference?

bamboozled | bamfoozled |

As verbs the difference between bamboozled and bamfoozled

is that bamboozled is (bamboozle) while bamfoozled is (bamfoozle).

bamboozled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bamboozle)

    • bamboozle

    English

    Verb

    (bamboozl)
  • (informal) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
  • * 1851 ,
  • *:“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”

    • bamfoozled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bamfoozle)

    • bamfoozle

    English

    Verb

    (bamfoozl)
  • (colloquial) To confound; to perplex.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1899 , author=Mayne Reid , title=The Rifle Rangers , publisher=F. M. Lupton Pub. Co. , chapter=Chapter XLIV, A New and Terrible Enemy , page=294 , passage="'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'.'"}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1902 , author=Simon Miltimore Dufur , title=Over the Dead Line , publisher=Free Press Association , chapter=Chapter XIV , page=176 , passage="'Bamfoozle de hounds and may def cut off dare scent.'"}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1919 , publisher=West Publishing Co. , title=The Southwestern Reporter, vol. 211 , page=46 , passage="Then why try to fool and flimflam and bamfoozle a jury of Jackson county men?"}}