vbl. sb. = BAMBOOZLEMENT.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 31, ¶ 7. Sir, perceive this is to you all bamboozling … All this good language was lost upon him.
1812. J. & H. Smith, Reject. Addr., v. (1873), 35. The dramatic bamboozling they have hitherto laboured under.
