Word Meanings - BAMBOOZLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. Addison. What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you J. H. Newman. (more info) Bamboozling ( Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BAMBOOZLE)

• Befool
• Deceive
• cheat
• mystify
• bamboozle
• ensnare
• hoodwink
• mislead
• Hoax
• gammon
• dupe
• trick
• trepan
• Juggle
• Conjure
• shuffle
• beguile
• circumvent
• swindle
• overreach
• Mystify
• Confuse
• puzzle
• confound
• obfuscate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BAMBOOZLE)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to BAMBOOZLE)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• CONJUREMENT
  Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. Milton.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• TREPAN
  1. A snare; a trapan. Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way. South. 2. a deceiver; a cheat. He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan. Macaulay.
• CONJURE
  Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured against the Highest. Milton.
• JUGGLERESS
  1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• SHUFFLE
  1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. 2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.
• TRICKINESS
  The quality of being tricky.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• CONJURER
  One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
• GAMMON
  The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• STRICKLE
  An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.