baffle to treat ignominiously, to use
contemptuously (
“Baffle . . . was originally a punishment of infamy,
inflicted on recreant knights, one part of which was hanging them up by the heels. In
French baffouer or baffoler.”
Nares's Gloss.):
“I will baffle Sir Toby,”
TWELFTH NIGHT, ii. 5. 143
;
“baffle me,”
1 HENRY IV., i. 2. 98
;
“how have they baffled thee!”
TWELFTH NIGHT, v. 1. 356
;
“baffled here,”
RICHARD II., i. 1. 170
;
“shall good news be baffled?”
2 HENRY IV., v. 3. 104.