ETYMOLOGY
from bam (to hoax, to make fun of to impose upon the credulous) + bluster
EXAMPLE
“…”In course,” continued Joe, more soothed: “none but a Jolly would go to say anything again it, or doubt the woracity o’ the thing. Well, shipmates, to heave ahead, I’m saying I was reg’larly bamblustercated when one of the genelmen up in the niches squeaks out, ‘King Herod, I’ll just thank your for a thimble-full of the stuff.'” …”
From: Bentley’s Miscellany, Volume II, 1837
‘Nights at Sea’
Lexicophilia 