英语词汇bamboozle bombazine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bamboozle bombazine
词源	bamboozle, bombazine. How did a fabric used for women’s mourning clothes since the early 19th century give its name to our word for “to cheat or swindle”? Probably an early confi- dence game had a female swindler posing as a bereft widow wearing black bombazine, her costume lending its name to the swindle or hoax she and others like her practiced. Jonathan Swift included bamboozle in a list of new distasteful slang words, but it survived nevertheless. Bombazine itself comes from the Greek bombux, “silkworm.”
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