It's the Word of the Day for March 14th.

Today's word is bamboozle, spelled B-A-M-B-O-O-O-Z-L-E.

Bambusal is a verb. To bamboozle someone is to deceive, trick, or confuse them.

Here's the word used, and a sentence from Forbes by Monica Mercury.

We're not trying to make a perfect film that's like got a twist. Oh my God, the coach is a ghost.

We're not out to bamboozle audiences or get awards or anything, Taika Watiti told Polygon.

The director continued, We Want to Make a Nice Movie, a true story about a football team,

and the only message is, be happy and don't live in the past.

In 1710, Irish author Jonathan Swift wrote an article on the continual corruption of our English tongue,

in which he complained of the choice of certain words invented by some pretty fellows.

Note that pretty here originally meant artful or clever.

Among the inventions Swift disliked was the word bamboozle,

which was used by contemporary criminals, beyondliked was the word bamboozle, which was used by contemporary

criminals. Beyond those who favored the word, little is known of its early days, but it has

clearly defied Swift's assertion that all new affected modes of speech are the first

perishing parts in any language. With its first syllable like a sound effect,

bamboozle hints at mystification or magic

when it is used to mean to confuse, frustrate, or perplex,

as in the batters were bamboozled by the pitcher's dazzling curveball.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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