Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bamboozle \Bam*boo"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bamboozled} (?);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Bamboozling} (?).] [Said to be of Gipsy
   origin.]
   To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to
   hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [Colloq.] --Addison.

         What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you? --J. H.
                                                  Newman.