bamboozle

GRE

英 [bæm'buːz(ə)l] 美[bæm'buzl]

释义

vt. 欺骗；使迷惑

词态变化

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

近义词

中文词源

bamboozle 欺骗

可能来自拟声词，同bomb, 炸弹。形容虚张声势。

英文词源

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.

英英释意

1. 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"

实用场景例句

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.