bambosh

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English

Etymology

From bamboozle and bosh.

Pronunciation

Noun

bambosh (uncountable)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.

Verb

bambosh (third-person singular simple present bamboshes, present participle bamboshing, simple past and past participle bamboshed)

  1. (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.