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 ceive by false representations; couleur signifies 'pretence,' 'semblance'); faire la queue à quelqu'un (popular); tirer la carotte (thieves'); faire voir le tour (popular); canarder (popular: literally 'to shoot at one from a sheltered position'; i.e., to have an advantage, and thus to be able to hoax or humbug); dindonner (popular: from dindon, a 'goose'); faire le coup, or monter le coup à quelqu'un (popular: coup in French slang is 'a secret process,' 'a knack' or 'dodge'—hence 'to deal one an underhand blow,' or 'to serve one a trick'); empaler (popular: 'to deceive by false representations'; literally 'to empale'); passer des curettes (popular: 'to make a fool of one'); monter une gaffe (popular: gaffe in French slang = 'a joke'; a piece of deceit); monter le job or jobarder (popular: job is equivalent to 'simpleton' or 'flat,' and is the same as jobelin); mener en bateau un pante pour le refaire (thieves': 'to deceive a man in order to rob him'); monter un batteau (popular); donner un pont à faucher (thieves': 'to lay a trap or snare'); promener quelqu'un (popular: 'to make a fool of one.' Cf., 'to rush'); compter des mistouffles (familiar: mistouffle = 'a scurvy trick'; 'a joke'); gourrer (popular: 'to stick'; 'to kid'; 'to deceive'); affluer (from à flouer, 'to cheat'; 'to diddle out of'); roustir (popular and thieves': 'to cheat'); affûter (thieves': 'to make unlawful profits'); bouler (popular); juiffer (popular: literally 'to Jew' as in English); pigeonner (familiar: 'to do,' 'to pluck.' In English slang the victims of card and other sharpers are called 'pigeons'); flancher (popular: 'to laugh at' or 'ridicule'); faire la barbe (popular: Cf., faire la queue); hisser un gandin (thieves': literally 'to hoist a dandy' or 'swell'); mettre dedans (popular: to take a rise out of one; literally to 'take in'); être l'autre (popular: Cf., to get left.' The phrase also signifies 'to be the lover,' the mistress); planter un chou (familiar).

German Synonyms.—See Jockey.

Italian Synonyms. Traversare (literally 'to cross over'); dar la stolfa.

Spanish Synonym. Encantar (literally 'to enchant,' 'to entertain with soft words').

Bambosh, subs. (nonce word).—Apparently a variation of bamboozling, as follows. [Bam + bosh.] Humbug; deceit; hoaxing.

1865. Day of Rest, Oct., 585. I was deaf to all that bambosh. [m.]

Bambsquabbled.—This coined word, which is, however, rarely used except in humorous writings, first saw the light in The Legend of the American War. It signifies discomfiture and defeat, or stupefaction; sometimes written bumsquabbled.

1835-40. T. C. Haliburton ('Sam Slick'), The Clockmaker, 2 S., ch. ii. The judge said, 'He had got too much already, cut him off the other two-thirds, and make him pay all costs.' If he didn't look bumsquabbled it's a pity.

Banaghan. He beats Banaghan, phr. (old).—An Irish saying of one who tells wonderful stories; Banaghan, thought Grose, was a minstrel famous