bum squabble

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bum squabble (third-person singular simple present bum squabbles, present participle bum squabbling, simple past and past participle bum squabbled)

  1. To discombobulate; to bamboozle or dupe.
    • 1986, Charles Johnson, “The Education of Mingo”, in The Sorcerer's Apprentice:
      That African, Moses saw inside a year, was exactly the product of his own way of seeing, as much one of his products and judgments as his choice of tobacco; was, in a sense that both pleased and bum-squabbled the crusty old man, himself: a homunculus, or a distorted shadow, or — as Moses put it to his lady friend Harriet Bridgewater — his own spitting image.
    • 1995, Donna Fletcher Crow, Where Love Begins, page 110:
      Do you deny the whole scene was contrived to —to bum squabble me?
    • 2011, Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep, page 96:
      I can tell you of another who is likely to bum squabble you, and that's James Wendover.
    • 2019, G.A. Gulick, The Sea of Lost Sons, page 174:
      Might be, but to my mind, we bum-squabbled him.