Synonyms of buffaloing

buffaloing

verb

present participle of buffalo

1

as in deceiving

to cause to believe what is untrue

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceiving
• tricking
• fooling
• stringing along
• sucking in
• teasing
• kidding
• having on
• gammoning
• hornswoggling
• taking in
• misleading
• duping
• faking out
• leading one up the garden path
• gulling
• juggling
• deluding
• leading one down the garden path
• pulling one's leg
• snookering
• hoodwinking
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• doing a number on
• snowing
• conning
• misinforming
• cheating
• misguiding
• bluffing
• stinging
• having
• suckering
• bamboozling
• spoofing
• hoaxing
• humbugging
• burning
• gaffing
• cozening
• catching
• beguiling
• putting on
• sticking
• bleeding
• defrauding
• shortchanging
• swindling
• euchring
• rooking
• mulcting
• chiselling
• fleecing
• flimflamming
• chiseling
• skinning
• hustling
• squeezing
• diddling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• showing up
• revealing
• uncovering
• unmasking
• undeceiving
• disclosing
• telling
• debunking
• divulging
• unveiling
• uncloaking
• disillusioning
• disabusing
• disenchanting

2

as in baffling

to throw into a state of mental uncertainty

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• baffling
• puzzling
• perplexing
• confusing
• bewildering
• posing
• befogging
• mystifying
• embarrassing
• gravelling
• rattling
• stunning
• bothering
• disorienting
• graveling
• flustering
• muddling
• blowing one's mind
• flummoxing
• getting
• vexing
• going to one's head
• bamboozling
• confounding
• disturbing
• befuddling
• discombobulating
• muddying
• addling
• mazing
• beating
• fuddling
• upsetting
• foxing
• bemusing
• sticking
• unsettling
• discomposing
• stumping
• distressing
• weirding out
• disconcerting
• mortifying
• stringing along
• nonplussing
• agitating
• taking in
• nonplusing
• discountenancing
• abashing
• fazing
• deceiving
• perturbing
• discomforting
• misleading
• disquieting
• discomfiting
• duping
• unhinging
• chagrining
• deluding
• gulling
• fooling
• tricking
• snowing
• hoodwinking
• dismaying
• misguiding
• humbugging
• hoaxing
• cozening
• beguiling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• satisfying
• assuring
• informing
• reassuring
• enlightening