bamboozle vs swindle

bamboozle

verb
  • To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone. 

  • To confuse, frustrate or perplex. 

swindle

verb
  • To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods. 

  • for a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw 

  • To defraud. 

noun
  • when a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw 

  • Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be. 

  • An instance of swindling. 

How often have the words bamboozle and swindle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )