bambosh
English
Etymology
From bamboozle and bosh.
Noun
bambosh (uncountable)
- (slang) Humbug; deceptive nonsense.
- 2001, Kathryn Kirkwood, A Townhouse for Tessa, →ISBN, page 103:
- Annie, a willing accomplice once Daisy had told her a tale of bambosh about wishing to approach Lady Sarah to seek employment for a friend, had also divulged that the dowager spent an hour every Thursday afternoon perusing the shelves at Lackington's Bookshop.
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- (in Haiti) Silliness and revelry.
- 1991, Richard A. Haggerty, Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies, page 340:
- Some Creole observers have described the post-Duvalier period as diyari demokratik (democratic diarrhea) or bambosh demokrasi (revelry of democracy).
- 2001, Charles H. Baker Jr., Knife, Fork and Spoon: Eating Around the World, →ISBN, page 198:
- Yes, the bambosh dance is still danced until the dancers, wildly drunk on clairine vanish into the surrounding blackness to capture the partner of their choice.
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Verb
bambosh (third-person singular simple present bamboshes, present participle bamboshing, simple past and past participle bamboshed)
- (slang) To bamboozle; to deceive with nonsense.
- 1934, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, & James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 238, page 541:
- Those who play and pay go to extraordinary lengths to be bamboshed.
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