bum squabble
verb1
To discombobulate; to bamboozle or dupe.
- That African, Moses saw inside a year, was exactly the product of his own way of seeing, as much one of his products and judgments as his choice of tobacco; was, in a sense that both pleased and bum-squabbled the crusty old man, himself: a homunculus, or a distorted shadow, or — as Moses put it to his lady friend Harriet Bridgewater — his own spitting image.1986, Charles Johnson, “The Education of Mingo”, in The Sorcerer's Apprentice:
- Do you deny the whole scene was contrived to —to bum squabble me?1995, Donna Fletcher Crow, Where Love Begins, page 110:
2 more examples
- I can tell you of another who is likely to bum squabble you, and that's James Wendover.2011, Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep, page 96:
- Might be, but to my mind, we bum-squabbled him.2019, G.A. Gulick, The Sea of Lost Sons, page 174: