{"id":17402,"date":"2019-01-19T19:21:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17402"},"modified":"2019-01-19T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T18:21:46","slug":"baboons-bobbins-bamboozling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17402","title":{"rendered":"Bamboozling Baboons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I learnt a couple of interesting French words &#8211; <strong>embabouiner<\/strong> [\u0251\u0303.ba.bwi.ne] (to flatter, butter up) and <strong>embobiner<\/strong> [\u0251\u0303.b\u0254.bi.ne] (to bamboozle).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Embabouiner<\/strong> combines the prefix <em>em-<\/em> and suffix <em>-er<\/em> with <em>babouin<\/em> (baboon), so you are making a baboon of someone when you flatter them [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/embabouiner\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Babouin<\/strong> comes from the Middle French <em>babouyne, baboin<\/em>, from Old French <em>babouin<\/em>, from <em>baboue<\/em> (grimace, muzzle), which is related to German dialectal word <em>B\u00e4ppe<\/em> (lips, muzzle) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/babouin#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/volvob12b\/12045657574\/in\/photolist-jmr9kh-7Xjzui-vaZmv-RzT26Y-9B1gAA-2BGUYe-4GWkd9-27rpoH-6FgRTj-CMyVWo-U5SRD2-FkJZC-EDuGTp-5ga8Xa-dNZFK1-23tgo9u-9rW5Y2-7E8Nu2-aVPhmk-8YndT2-ELvhk3-5FGir6-27roQz-7cfHYE-6WhHUC-faQNfF-4jtUmo-n6Eya-3CVKtB-83iEzq-76vFSH-2XGbip-afCS1f-WaqYTB-qFH6SC-cEd9LN-8puXE-bsGNgA-6FgSqy-27rojr-attGyu-2mMAkc-22rjnvb-aBGLST-5juECy-21Qy2ho-2656gNN-fgsB5Z-56Fk7h-5h6KFd\" title=\"Baboons.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7408\/12045657574_737dfb370f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Baboons.\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\"\/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Embobiner<\/strong> means to get round (someone), to pull to wool over someone&#8217;s eyes, to bamboozle or to outfox. It can also mean to wind up, reel up\/in or wrap up. It combines the same prefix and suffix as <em>embabouiner<\/em> with <em>bobine<\/em> (bobbin, reel, spool, drum), so you are winding someone on a bobbin when you bamboozle them [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/embobiner\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bobine<\/strong> probably comes from the Latin word <em>balbus<\/em>, (stammering, stuttering, lisping, fumbling) and is immitative of the noise of a bobbin [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bobine#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word bamboozle comes from the 17th century slang word bam (to trick, to con), from the noun bam (fraudster, cheat), possibly from the French <em>embobiner<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bamboozle\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I learnt a couple of interesting French words &#8211; embabouiner [\u0251\u0303.ba.bwi.ne] (to flatter, butter up) and embobiner [\u0251\u0303.b\u0254.bi.ne] (to bamboozle). Embabouiner combines the prefix em- and suffix -er with babouin (baboon), so you are making a baboon of someone when you flatter them [source]. Babouin comes from the Middle French babouyne, baboin, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,116,10,15,27,34,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-french","category-old-french","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}