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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt.
  2. v. To shy away or be overcome with fright or astonishment: "The mind now boggling at all the numbers on the table, both sides agreed to a recess of an hour” ( Henry A. Kissinger).
  3. v. To act ineptly or inefficiently; bungle.
  4. v. To cause to be overcome, as with fright or astonishment.
  5. v. To botch; bungle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dialectal form of bogle.
  2. To take alarm; start with fright; shy, as a horse.
  3. To hesitate; stop, as if afraid to proceed, or as if impeded by unforeseen difficulties; waver; shrink.
  4. To play fast and loose; dissemble; quibble; equivocate.
  5. To bungle; be awkward; make clumsy attempts.
  6. n. The act of shying or taking alarm.
  7. n. Objection; scruple; demur.
  8. n. A bungle; a botch.
  9. n. A pitcher or jug wrought in the figure of a man, not unlike a toby or toby-pitcher.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
  2. v. transitive To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
  3. v. US, dialect To embarrass with difficulties; to bungle or botch.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
  2. v. To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
  3. v. To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
  4. v. Local, U. S. To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. overcome with amazement
  2. v. startle with amazement or fear
  3. v. hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear

Etymologies

  1. Probably from boggle, dialectal variant of bogle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (10)

Words with the same meaning

  1. hesitate
  2. doubt
  1. stickle
  2. shrink
  1. demur
  2. dissemble
  1. shy
  2. object
  1. bungle
  2. bogy

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. surprise
  1. start
  1. jump
  1. startle
  1. hesitate
  1. waver
  1. waffle

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. green-covered
  2. likethat
  3. babblement
  4. limmer
  1. book
  2. forefinger
  3. callant
  4. peninsular
  1. biddy
  2. to-neet
  3. enforcer
  4. purplish-grey
  1. butterbeer
  2. lacklustre
  3. school-teacher
  4. cholo
  1. bluish-grey
  2. germinative
  3. too-a
  4. prudishness
  1. yellow-gray
  2. chocolate-brown
  3. yuzu
  4. ITA

rhymes (4)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. boondoggle
  1. goggle
  1. noggle
  1. toggle

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. bodge

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  • hernesheir 5. A pitcher or jug wrought in the figure of a man, not unlike a toby or toby-pitcher. --CD&C
    Nov 28, 2011

  • yarb He sung the same songs repeatedly one after another every day; so that when, after saying ten or twelve lines after him for three months together, I got to boggle through them without missing, the whole family were in raptures at my memory.

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 5 Sep 11, 2008

  • brusselsprouts Perpetually boggled by the number of social networking sites online... Jan 22, 2008

  • john "I'm the king of Boggle there is none higher, I get 11 points off the word quagmire!"
    - Beastie Boys, "Putting Shame In Your Game," off Hello Nasty Jan 22, 2008

  • minerva ...when your unexampled vigilance and exalted virtue made potions, and rapes, and the utmost violences, necessary to the attainment of his detestable end, we see that he never boggled at them.

    Anna Howe to Clarissa Harlowe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Jan 4, 2008

  • sonofgroucho As in "The mind boggles!". Feb 7, 2007

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