Bamboozle meant to deceive a passing vessel as to your ship's origin or nationality by flying an ensign other than your own - a common practice of pirates. The word was used in the days of sail, also, but the intent was not hilarity. In today's Navy when you intentionally deceive someone, usually as a joke, you are said to have bamboozled them. A Moorish chief was an "emir," and the chief of all chiefs was an "emir-al." Our English word is derived directly from the Moorish. An admiral is the senior ranking flag officer in the US Navy, but his title comes from the name given the senior ranking officer in the Moorish army of many years ago.
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