Name: Learn the English Words "schemozzle" and "bamboozle"
Uploaded: 2025-02-02T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 4 min 5 s
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Past simple

In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the word schmuzzle.

When there's a schmuzzle it means that something is a mess.

The imperative

Let's say you're at work and you need four truckloads of, I don't know, flour in order to make bread that day.

Maybe you work at a bread factory and only one truckload showed up.

Or maybe instead of four truckloads showing up, eight truckloads show up.

I don't even know if I'm quite saying it correctly but I heard a colleague say it today.

They said, wow, there's just a real schmuzzle.

But whenever you use this word it means something is a mess.

It means it's not going the way it's supposed to or it isn't the way it's supposed to be.

The other word I wanted to teach you today is bamboozle.

This means when you trick someone, usually for financial gain.

By the way, I just, I like the funny words today, schmuzzle and bamboozle.

When you bamboozle someone it means that you trick them into buying something that isn't worth what you think it is.

If Jen was to bamboozle people at market, eventually people would be annoyed with us because she would be tricking them, maybe selling them, you know, ten flowers in a bouquet and saying there's thirty in there or something like that.

So, to review, oh, I already put the words away.

A schmuzzle is a mess and when you bamboozle someone you trick them, usually because you want to get money from them somehow.

Hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

Hi Bob, by the way, did you fasten the seatbelt around the bottle?

I learned my lesson a long time ago when a bottle fell over in my van and the lid came off.

I was going to say schmuzzle, but that doesn't really describe it.

By the way, I put a water bottle in my van in the last video and after I put it, or in my car, and then after I put it in there I did put the seatbelt through the handle and fastened the seatbelt because that's a good way to prevent it from falling over.

I have to admit, I'm a little bit nervous.

It's the first day of school, or first day of second semester tomorrow.

That's probably why I'm talking so quickly.

I'm just going to go over here out of the wind a little bit.

It's a, whew, it is quite a bit colder than I was expecting out here.

Sorry, I was just looking at the ground here because it's a bit of a different color.

Do you see how the, it's a little darker there than it is over here.

I think though that might just be from yesterday.

And so the vehicles all have like salt and sand and stuff on the side from the roads and maybe that just kind of slipped off.

So can I venture out into the cold again?

That actually came from, I think it came from over there.

Because I do really need to clean that up.

There's a few other things that blew around as well, but mostly we made it through okay.

Wish me, wish me luck for tomorrow and I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson.