bamboozle

Verb
Synonyms: snowhoodwinkpull the wool over someone's eyeslead by the noseplay false

WordNet 3.0

Verb (1)

  1. 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”Synonyms: snowhoodwinkpull the wool over someone's eyeslead by the noseplay false
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Bamboozle \Bam*boo"zle\ (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"z'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bamboozled (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"z'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Bamboozling (b[a^]m*b[=oo]"zl[i^]ng).] [Said to be of Gipsy origin.] To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [Colloq.] --Addison. [1913 Webster]

What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you? --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]

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