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buffaloing

verb , present participle of buffalo

Synonyms and Antonyms of buffaloing

1 to cause to believe what is untrue

I'm not some newcomer that you can buffalo with that nonsense

Synonyms of buffaloing

bamboozling, beguiling, bluffing, burning, catching, conning, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, faking out, fooling, gaffing, gammoning, gulling, having, having on [chiefly British], hoaxing, hoodwinking, hornswoggling, humbugging, juggling, misguiding, misinforming, misleading, snookering, snowing, spoofing, stringing along, suckering, sucking in, taking in, tricking

Words Related to buffaloing

kidding, putting on, teasing

bleeding, cheating, chiseling (or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling

Phrases Synonymous with buffaloing

doing a number on, leading one down the garden path (also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes

Near Antonyms of buffaloing

debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking

disclosing, divulging, telling, unveiling

disabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning

Antonyms of buffaloing

2 to throw into a state of mental uncertainty

in this debate I refuse to be buffaloed by a flurry of irrelevant issues

Synonyms of buffaloing

addling, baffling, bamboozling, beating, befogging, befuddling, bemusing, bewildering, confounding, confusing, discombobulating, disorienting, flummoxing, foxing, fuddling, getting, graveling (or gravelling), mazing, muddling, muddying, mystifying, perplexing, posing, puzzling, vexing

Words Related to buffaloing

sticking, stumping, weirding out

abashing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing (also nonplusing), rattling

agitating, bothering, chagrining, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, stunning, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting

beguiling, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, fooling, gulling, hoaxing, hoodwinking, humbugging, misguiding, misleading, snowing, stringing along, taking in, tricking

Phrases Synonymous with buffaloing

blowing one's mind, going to one's head

Near Antonyms of buffaloing

assuring, reassuring, satisfying

enlightening, informing

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