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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • That would be a real schmuzzle.

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

  • That's a schmuzzle.

  • It's a funny word.

  • 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.

  • And I won't give you the specifics.

  • 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.

  • She would be bamboozling them.

  • 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.

  • Oh, it's getting a little cold out here.

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

  • This comment is from Sajonara.

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

  • And my response, I did indeed.

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

  • Yeah, that was a mess.

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

  • But yes, I did have that.

  • Thanks for the comment, by the way.

  • I did have that once.

  • 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.

  • So anyways, how's everybody doing?

  • 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.

  • And this is where my van was parked.

  • So I better check the oil in that van.

  • I don't think it's oil.

  • I don't know.

  • What do you think it is?

  • 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.

  • Things melted a bit.

  • 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?

  • Yeah, probably.

  • I'll do that.

  • So, or maybe not.

  • A little colder than I was expecting.

  • I was going to, expecting.

  • I was going to show you this as well.

  • We had a windstorm.

  • That was not there the other day.

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

  • We have a bit of a junk pile over there.

  • You've probably seen it in a few videos.

  • Because I do really need to clean that up.

  • And I think that blew over here.

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

  • Anyways, thanks for watching.

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

  • Bye.

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

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