v. Chiefly Sc. 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.
