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Updated: June 7, 2025
We may notice that some of these words, such as banter and sham, are now quite good English, and most of the others have at least passed from the stage of slang into that of colloquialism. The word bamboozle is still almost slang, though perhaps more common than it was two hundred years ago, when Swift attacked it. Even now we do not know where it came from.
Now, if I had turned to them, and said, "He would be funnier if I hadn't," and paraphrased, however wittily, Carlyle's ironical picture of a nude court of St. James's, they would have punched my head under the confused idea that I was trying to bamboozle them. Which brings me to my point of departure, my remark to Judith as to the futility of jesting to unpercipient ears.
"Refer me you animated outrage you libel! Turn me loose, you fellows! I don't want to see you or your durn lawyers! I know what you want, well enough. You want to bamboozle me into selling my interest in the Copper-bottom for less than it's worth. Here's my last word to you Mr. ah White! If you want my fourth at forty thousand, to-day, all right.
'He bamboozle the jury hevery time. He cut up bad though." Charley raised his hand with a nervous gesture of misery and impatience. "'Where have you been, that man say 'where have you been all these times not to know 'bout Charley Steele, hein? 'In the backwoods, I say. 'What bring you here now? he ask. 'I have a case, I say. 'What is it? he ask.
Glad you got it, girl, only don't try to tell me you can't take care of yourself in this world alrighty, girl. Any old time you can't! Gad! thirty-five hundred she snitches out of her allowance in six years, lives on the fat of the land, too, and then tries to bamboozle me that she's flat. Thirty-five hundred in six years. Gad! I got to hand it to you there, kiddo; I got to hand it to you!"
"True as gospel," exclaimed Knuckler, with a hideous oath; adding "Ay, and in some places they are still worse used." "You hear that?" said Norcot. "I wasn't going to bamboozle you with any nonsense, my lad. We're all in the same lag, you know, and must stick by one another." My soul revolted at this horrible association, but I took care to conceal my feelings.
Who's running you, your own conscience or some gang of men that's trying to steal from the State? Good God, I wish I had never lived to see the day a brother of mine put a thief in the United States Senate to bamboozle the honest, hard-working people of this State!" "Hold on, please that's a little too strong!" flamed the Governor. "It ain't too strong.
"My mother's name, sir, was Wilson." "Very good; what was her Christian name?" "Catherine, sir." "And you must say that I know nothing whatsoever of the imposture you were guilty of. I shall make it worth your while; and if you don't get well through with it, and enable me to bamboozle the old fellow, I have done with you. I shall send for you by and by."
Gallagher touched his hat humbly. "We'd like a word with you, Captain Blythe." "I thought Bothwell was your captain?" The sailor flushed. "No, sir. We're through with him." "Now that he's a prisoner?" suggested Sam. "We wish we'd never let him bamboozle us, sir. It would 'a' been a sight better for a lot of poor fellows if we'd never seen him. That man's a devil, sir." "Indeed!"
I deprecated this advice, of course; but for a man of weakened will he showed great firmness. "You," he said, "in your heart of hearts, don't want to have to walk and talk continually with a person who might at any moment try to bamboozle you with some ridiculous tale.
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