EGAVE

boggle

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb (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.
  2. verb To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
    He boggled at the surprising news.
  3. verb To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
    The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
  4. verb To embarrass with difficulties; to palter or equivocate; to bungle or botch
  5. verb To dissemble; to play fast and loose (with someone or something).
  6. verb To wiggle the eyes as a result of bruxing.
  7. verb ↑ "Knowledge and practice: or, A plain discourse of the chief things necessary to be known, believ'd, and practised in order to salvation ... The 2d edition revised and inlarged 1665 publisher=William Grantham, Henry Mortlock, and William Miller
  8. verb ↑ “boggle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Similar words

flabbergast bowl over confuse dumbfound amaze buffle bobble bamboozle habble burble

Often followed by

at the over your my and our hole about

Word family

boggled boggles boggling bogle

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