"bamfoozle" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: bamfoozles [present, singular, third-person], bamfoozling [participle, present], bamfoozled [participle, past], bamfoozled [past]
Etymology: Variant of bamboozle, possibly influenced by confuse; see Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. Head templates: {{en-verb}} bamfoozle (third-person singular simple present bamfoozles, present participle bamfoozling, simple past and past participle bamfoozled)
  1. (colloquial) To confound; to perplex. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-bamfoozle-en-verb-bTApqlMb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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