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名詞

bambosh (uncountable)

1. (slang) Humbug; deceptive nonsense.
   • 2001, Kathryn Kirkwood, A Townhouse for Tessa, →ISBN, page 103:

     Annie, a willing accomplice once Daisy had told her a tale of bambosh about wishing to approach Lady Sarah to seek employment for a friend, had also divulged that the dowager spent an hour every Thursday afternoon perusing the shelves at Lackington's Bookshop.

2. (in Haiti) Silliness and revelry.
   • 1991, Richard A. Haggerty, Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies, page 340:

     Some Creole observers have described the post-Duvalier period as diyari demokratik (democratic diarrhea) or bambosh demokrasi (revelry of democracy).

   • 2001, Charles H. Baker Jr., Knife, Fork and Spoon: Eating Around the World, →ISBN, page 198:

     Yes, the bambosh dance is still danced until the dancers, wildly drunk on clairine vanish into the surrounding blackness to capture the partner of their choice.

動詞

bambosh (三人称単数 現在形 bamboshes, 現在分詞 bamboshing, 過去形および過去分詞形 bamboshed)

1. (slang) To bamboozle; to deceive with nonsense.
   • 1934, Jared Sparks, ‎Edward Everett, & ‎James Russell Lowell, The North American Review - Volume 238, page 541:

     Those who play and pay go to extraordinary lengths to be bamboshed.