11393.
Sayers
(William): Some ‘Alsatian’ etymologies from Eighteenth-century London.
In
N&Q 57/1
(Mar., 2010), pp. 79–83.
Suggests E
bamboozle
,
banter
,
sham
, are of Irish origin.
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D 1.2.4 Lexical copying (= Lexical borrowing) between Irish (incl. Scottish Gaelic and Manx) and English (incl. Scots)