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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bamboozle is a verb meaning "conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bamboozle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.