Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BOGGLE
BOGGLE
Definitions of BOGGLE
- (intransitive) To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
- (transitive) To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To dissemble; to play fast and loose (with someone or something).
- (intransitive, of a rat) To wiggle the eyes as a result of bruxing.
- (dated) A scruple or objection.
- (dated) A bungle; a botched situation.
- Alternative form of bogle.
- (US, dialect) To embarrass with difficulties; to palter or equivocate; to bungle or botch
- (transitive or intransitive) (literally or figuratively) to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using BOGGLE in a Sentence
- The games include a pancake-eating contest, foosball, a dining hall version of Iron Chef, and hot pepper-eating, as well as a wiffle ball home run derby, ping pong, Wii sports, dodgeball, and boggle.
- Imposingly tall, with eyes that seem to constantly boggle, a mass of curls for hair and prominently displayed teeth, the Doctor favours an outfit that usually consists of a white shirt, waistcoat, cravat, trousers, a frock coat (with pockets containing a seemingly endless array of apparently useless items that would nevertheless suit the Doctor's purposes when used), a fedora and, most famously, his impractically long, multi-coloured scarf, which was apparently knitted for him by Madame Nostradamus (whom he refers to as a "witty little knitter").
- The cover artwork by Jim Roslof features a drawing of two hobgoblins, one of which is a sergeant with a leashed boggle, and a party of adventurers.
- A bogle, boggle, or bogill is a Northumbrian, Cumbrian and Scots term for a ghost or folkloric being, Brags, the Hedley Kow They are reputed to live for the simple purpose of perplexing mankind, rather than seriously harming or serving them.
- It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.
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