"bamfoozle" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Variant of bamboozle, possibly influenced by confuse; see Cassell's Dictionary of Slang.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bamfoozles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bamfoozling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bamfoozled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bamfoozled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bamfoozle (third-person singular simple present bamfoozles, present participle bamfoozling, simple past and past participle bamfoozled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1899, Mayne Reid, “Chapter XLIV, A New and Terrible Enemy”, in The Rifle Rangers, F. M. Lupton Pub. Co., page 294",
          "text": "\"'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'.'\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Simon Miltimore Dufur, “Chapter XIV”, in Over the Dead Line, Free Press Association, page 176",
          "text": "\"'Bamfoozle de hounds and may def cut off dare scent.'\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, The Southwestern Reporter, vol. 211, West Publishing Co., page 46",
          "text": "Then why try to fool and flimflam and bamfoozle a jury of Jackson county men?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To confound; to perplex."
      ],
      "id": "en-bamfoozle-en-verb-bTApqlMb",
      "links": [
        [
          "confound",
          "confound"
        ],
        [
          "perplex",
          "perplex"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To confound; to perplex."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bamfoozle"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Variant of bamboozle, possibly influenced by confuse; see Cassell's Dictionary of Slang.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bamfoozles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bamfoozling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bamfoozled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bamfoozled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bamfoozle (third-person singular simple present bamfoozles, present participle bamfoozling, simple past and past participle bamfoozled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1899, Mayne Reid, “Chapter XLIV, A New and Terrible Enemy”, in The Rifle Rangers, F. M. Lupton Pub. Co., page 294",
          "text": "\"'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'.'\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Simon Miltimore Dufur, “Chapter XIV”, in Over the Dead Line, Free Press Association, page 176",
          "text": "\"'Bamfoozle de hounds and may def cut off dare scent.'\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, The Southwestern Reporter, vol. 211, West Publishing Co., page 46",
          "text": "Then why try to fool and flimflam and bamfoozle a jury of Jackson county men?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To confound; to perplex."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "confound",
          "confound"
        ],
        [
          "perplex",
          "perplex"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To confound; to perplex."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bamfoozle"
}