boggle
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive, transitive)(transitive or intransitive) (literally or figuratively) to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle.
The dogs went on, but the horse boggled at the sudden appearance of the strange beast.
The horror of the deed and its consequences boggle the imagination.
- 2.
(intransitive)To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
He boggled at the surprising news.
The mind boggles.
1795, Mary Wollstonecraft, letter to Gilbert Imlay dated 4 October, 1795, in Mary Wollstonecraft: Letters to Imlay, London: Kegan Paul, 1879, p. 182, From the tenour of your last letter however, I am led to imagine, that you have formed some new attachment.—If it be so, let me earnestly request you to see me once more, and immediately. This is the only proof I require of the friendship you profess for me. I will then decide, since you boggle about a mere form.
- 3.
(transitive)To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
- 4.
(US, dialectal)(US, dialect) To embarrass with difficulties; to palter or equivocate; to bungle or botch
- 5.
(intransitive, obsolete)To dissemble; to play fast and loose (with someone or something).
- 6.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of a rat) To wiggle the eyes as a result of bruxing.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(dated)A scruple or objection.
- 2.
(dated)A bungle; a botched situation.
- 3.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative form of bogle.
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Variation or derivation of bogle, possibly cognate with bug.