Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) of tears, to fill the eye (and obscure the vision).

1849		Sunbury Amer. (PA) 3 Mar. 1/3: The tears of affection bedoozled her eye.
1857		Eve. Star (Washington, DC) 18 May 2/1: Her yeyes, which shamed the lightening bugs, were bedoozled with diamond tears.
1886		Arizona Silver Belt (Globe City, AZ) 13 Nov. 2/1: When the news of the calamitous [...] earthquake reached him, [...] tears ‘bedoozled’ his eyes.

2. (US) to confuse; thus bedoozling adj., astounding, amazing.

1860		Dly Intelligencer (Wheeling, VA) 3 Aug. 1/3: The flies buzzed around in a bedoozled sort of way.
1862		E.K. Wightman letter 4 Oct. in Longacre From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 49: The orderly [...] says in a bedoozling sort of way, ‘Front.’ [Ibid.] 26 Jan. 1863 105: Fred says you are so far bedoozled as to suspect me of being adjutant of the 9th. [Ibid.] 11 May 1864 180: I picked the enclosed flower to send to the girls as a momento of the ‘bedoozling’ occasion.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
2002		posting at webtunes.com 21 Oct. 🌐 OD puts on the best live show around and writes muzic to bedazzle your mind and bedoozle your booty.

3. (US) to become emotional.

1908

Sun (NY) 27 Dec. 19/2: ‘To the furderest ginerashun,’ gulped old Narcoss, fairly bedoozling over his new found hope.