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Definition of Bumbazed
1. bumbaze [v] - See also: bumbaze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bumbazed
Literary usage of Bumbazed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... for ye maun be at Moffat the morn too ; an' it is mair nor time we were away.
Dinna look sae bumbazed, woman, till I tell ye, that our ain Mary is to ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... Bummer»—a thin piece of wood swung round by a cord." Blackw. Mag., Aug., 1821, p.
35. Evidently denominated from the booming sound produced. bumbazed ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"Sc. bumbazed, puzzled, astonished. To Ban. To proclaim, command, forbid, denounce,
curse. The primitive meaning of the word seems to have been to summons to ..."
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