Baffle

baf′fl, v.t. to check or make ineffectual: ( obs. ) to cheat, hoodwink, bewilder, bring to nought: ( obs. ) to disgrace publicly.— ns. Baf′fle ( obs. ), confusion, check; Baf′fler , a bewilderer, confounder.— To baffle out of ( obs. ), to juggle out of anything. [Prob. Scotch and connected with bauchle ; but cf. Fr. beffler , from O. Fr. befe , mockery. Paul Meyer suggests a derivation from Prov. baf , interj. of disdain.]