bamboozle

英式音标：bamboozle怎么读

美式音标：bamboozle怎么读

词汇归类： GRE

近义词： beguile,cheat

bamboozle词义

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vt. 欺骗；使迷惑

第三人称单数: bamboozles;过去式: bamboozled;过去分词: bamboozled;现在分词: bamboozling;

bamboozle 欺骗

可能来自拟声词，同bomb, 炸弹。形容虚张声势。

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bamboozle: bamboozle: [18] Bamboozle is a mystery word. It first appears in 1703, in the writings of the dramatist Colly Cibber, and seven years later it was one of a list of the latest buzzwords cited by Jonathan Swift in the Tatler (others included bully, mob, and sham). It is probably a ‘cant’ term (a sort of low-life argot), and may perhaps be of Scottish origin; there was a 17th-century Scottish verb bombaze ‘perplex’, which may be the same word as bombace, literally ‘padding, stuffing’, but metaphorically ‘inflated language’ (the variant form bombast has survived into modern English).
=> bombast
bamboozle (v.): 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.

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He bamboozled me into believing that he'd lost all his money.: 他欺骗我让我相信他把钱全丢光了.