Synonyms for bamboozled

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bam-boo-zuh l

Phonetic Transcription : bæmˈbu zəl

Top 10 synonyms for bamboozled

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Définition of bamboozled

Origin : 1703, originally a slang or cant word, perhaps Scottish from bombaze "perplex," related to bombast, or French embabouiner "to make a fool (literally 'baboon') of." Related: Bamboozled; bamboozling. As a noun from 1703.

verb fool; cheat

Example sentences :

She's bamboozled that sap-headed county judge, Boompointer, into givin' it to her.
Extract from : « Found At Blazing Star » by Bret Harte

The Chinese have bamboozled and baffled us, that is the plain truth.
Extract from : « The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) » by Charles C. F. Greville

And as a matter of fact I was left just as bamboozled as you were.
Extract from : « Simon » by J. Storer Clouston

You may have bamboozled the President, after all he's only a civilian, but you're not about to fool me!
Extract from : « I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon » by Richard Sabia

Neither she nor any other shall be befooled and bamboozled under my roof.
Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor

I want to tell you that you're bein' played; that you're bein' befooled and bamboozled and honey-fogled.
Extract from : « Cressy » by Bret Harte

Mr. Wilson was not so utterly "bamboozled" as Mr. Keynes would have us believe.
Extract from : « The Problem of Foreign Policy » by Gilbert Murray

They are as plain as a pikestaff—only any man can be bamboozled by the silliest of them.
Extract from : « The Career of Katherine Bush » by Elinor Glyn

Not so, answered Cinq Mars, he has only bamboozled an innkeeper.
Extract from : « Richelieu, v. 2/3 » by G. P. R. James

Theyve been bamboozled into thinking it, or paid to think it.
Extract from : « Sudden Jim » by Clarence Budington Kelland

Antonyms for bamboozled

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