Crossword clues for bamboozle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you?
--J. H.
Newman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (context informal English) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
WordNet
v. 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" [syn: snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false]
Wikipedia
Bamboozle! was a quiz game featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the United Kingdom. It was originally part of Teletext's "Fun & Games" category, though the rest of the category had been discontinued for some years before Bamboozle! ended (due to the general discontinuation of all Teletext news and editorial content in December 2009). The last edition, themed around ends and lasts, appeared on Monday 14 December 2009. The Boozler 'family' appeared one last time on Tuesday 15 December 2009 [pictured right] saying farewell to the Teletext audience.
On 9 August 2010 Bamboozle! was given a new home by Teletext on the iPhone complete with all the retro graphics.
Bamboozle! was originally intended as a real-time game that could be played in conjunction with a broadcast TV programme using a similar multiple choice format as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The decision by the new broadcast teletext franchise holders (Teletext UK) in 1993 to opt for X.25 packet switching meant that it was impossible to adequately synchronise the broadcast of teletext content in the context of a TV programme. The format thus fell back to the form it had operated in largely unchanged since 1993.
Bamboozle or bamboozled may refer to:
- Bamboozle (quiz), a quiz game that was featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the United Kingdom
- The Bamboozle, an annual three-day music festival held in New Jersey
- Bamboozled, a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee
- Bamboozled (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 2000 film
- Bamboozled: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda, a 2007 political book
- Banjo-Kazooie, a videogame for the Nintendo 64.
Usage examples of "bamboozle".
For instance, did you know Master Cung managed to bamboozle three hundred armfuls of silk, a skepful of Sui dynasty myrrh, twenty golden flagons of rice wine, forty she goats and thirty pheasants from the Chinese?
Cursing himself for being softheaded and the old lady for bamboozling him, Sandy began scrounging through his apartment for spare cash and found a quarter, two pennies, and four nickels.
The producers thought it would be instructive to explore how easily a faith-healer or guru could be created to bamboozle the public and the media.
Doubtless, an attorney for the defence will try to bamboozle a jury into believing the police got the wrong man.
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication and courage.
Baloney, bamboozles, careless thinking, flimflam and wishes disguised as facts are not restricted to parlour magic and ambiguous advice on matters of the heart.
So it was that, by the time Zenos and his mother awakened to the fact that they had been duped and bamboozled out of the game, Lukos had both the Council of Nobles and the army and navy solidly on the hip.
For more than a decade, George Wallace has bamboozled the national press and terrified the ranking fixers in both major parties.
Anybody who could deceive the musically sophisticated with such ease would have no trouble at all in bamboozling the public.
I remembered his words as my plane started its descent towards Delhi, so the word bamboozle was my one preparation for the rich, noisy, functioning madness of India.
That the man I knew as wise should once have been so confused, so bamboozled by Cupid, so befooled by a girl, so dominated by his instructors, so wanting in self-determination, was unbearable.
His father thought he was a criminal, and Cassie had them all bamboozled.
That she, the strong-minded Amazon, the lion-hearted wielder of the sword of justice, the indomitable scorner of men should thus have been cozened, baffled, bamboozled like any groundling or village dolt was inconceivable.
In it could be found the histories of boom-and-bust economic crazes, including the Mississippi and South Sea `Bubbles' and the extravagant run on Dutch tulips, scams that bamboozled the wealthy and titled of many nations.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.