[f. prec. sb.] To beat or ‘cane’ with a bamboo. Hence Bambooing vbl. sb.
1816. ‘Quiz,’ Grand Master, VIII. 213. Or else they wou’d Get most confoundedly bamboo’d.
1818. J. M’Leod, Voy. Alceste, ii. (1820), 42. One [Chinese] pickpocket … received a very severe bambooing.
a. 1845. Syd. Smith, quoted in Nonconf., V. 266. Wellington bamboos his followers, and Peel bamboozles them.
