English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Bogged (imp. & p. p.)

of Bog

Bogging (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Bog

Boggle (v. t.)

To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.

Boggle (n.)

To play fast and loose; to dissemble.

Boggle (n.)

To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

Boggle (n.)

To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.

Boggled (imp. & p. p.)

of Boggle

Boggler (n.)

One who boggles.

Boggling (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Boggle

Bogglish (a.)

Doubtful; skittish.

Boggy (a.)

Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

Bogie (n.)

A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

Bogies (pl. )

of Bogy

Bogle (n.)

A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.

Bogsucker (n.)

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

Bogtrotter (n.)

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.

Bogtrotting (a.)

Living among bogs.

Bogue (n.)

The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.

Bogue (v. i.)

To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.

Bogus (n.)

A liquor made of rum and molasses.