Bambooʹzle
.To cheat by cunning, or daze with tricks.
“The third refinement observable in the letter I send you, consists of the choice of certain words invented by some pretty fellows, such as banter, bamboozle … and kidney … some of which are now struggling for the vogue, and others are in possession of it.”—Swift: The Tatler (Sept. 28, 1710).
To bamboozle into (doing something). To induce by trickery.
