Perplex vs Bamfoozle - What's the difference?
perplex | bamfoozle |
To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
(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?"}}
As verbs the difference between perplex and bamfoozle
is that perplex is to cause to feel baffled; to while bamfoozle is (colloquial) to confound; to perplex.As an adjective perplex
is (obsolete) intricate; difficult.perplex
English
Verb
(es)- What was thought obscure, perplexed , and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
- (Glanvill)