bamboozle
英 [bæmˈbuː.zəl]
美 [bæmˈbuː.zəl]
记忆“bamboozle”可以通过构造一个形象的故事或场景来联想。可以将“bamboozle”想象为一个人(“bam”)在玩耍(“play”)时,突然被竹子(“bamboo”)绊倒,导致他(“ze”)感到困惑和不知所措。这种方法通过创建一个生动的画面来帮助记忆单词的含义,即“迷惑、使困惑”。
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bamboozle 欺骗可能来自拟声词,同bomb, 炸弹。形容虚张声势。
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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).
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- 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.