bumbaze, v. Chiefly Sc.
(bʌmˈbeɪz)
Also 8 bombaze, -base, 9 bumbaize.
[app. a kind of intensive form of baze v.; but cf. also bamboozle.]
To confound, perplex, bamboozle.
| 1725 Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. i, She..gars me look bombaz'd and unco blate. Ibid. iv. ii, Then oft by night, bombase hare-hearted fools. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet II. iv, How the scoundrel redcoats must have been bumbazed. 1840 Barham Ingol. Leg. 117 Clear bumbaized, and amazed, and fixed all the room stick. 1882 Gd. Words 100 The mother..poor body, looked a good deal bumbazed. |