Another way to say “deceive”
7 slang terms grouped by this meaning, ranked by popularity.
A wonderfully expressive American dialect word — especially from Pennsylvania Dutch communities — meaning to completely confuse, mix up, or bamboozle someone. If you ferhoodle someone, you've left their brain in a twist. It's the kind of word that sounds exactly like what it means: tangled, muddled, baffling. Think of it as a more colourful way of saying 'confound' or 'perplex', with a distinctly folksy, Americana flavour that makes it hard to forget.
Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us.".
(West Indies, Jamaica) Crime; something illicit; a scam.
(transitive, archaic, United States, slang) To entice, trick or manipulate (someone) into joining up with a group or activity.
(Scotland, archaic) A victim of a hoax or trick.
(chiefly, Internet slang, humorous) A notional disease mentioned to trick the interlocutor into inquiring as to its nature, whereupon the speaker responds by saying ligma balls (lick my balls) as a prank.