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Boggle   /bˈɑgəl/   Listen
verb
Boggle  v. t.  To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. (Local, U. S.)


Boggle  v. i.  (past & past part. boggled; pres. part. boggling)  
1.
To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. "We start and boggle at every unusual appearance." "Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose."
2.
To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
3.
To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
Synonyms: To doubt; hesitate; shrink; stickle; demur.


noun
Bogle  n.  (Written also boggle)  A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.





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"Boggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... that are not included in the volume at hand. The few touches that we have in this vein show a masculine fear on Brooke's part of being merely pretty in his verse. In his young thirst for reality he did not boggle at coarse figures or loathsome metaphors. Just as his poems of 1905-08 are of the cliche period where all lips are "scarlet," and lamps are "relumed," so the section dated 1908-11 shows Brooke in the Shropshire Lad stage, ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... wasn't tidy and clean and a welcome always when I came back. It's been rough on her, and on you too, my gal; and if it'll do her any good, tell her I'm dashed sorry. You can take this trifle of money. You needn't boggle at it; it's honest got and earned, long before this other racket. Now you can go. Kiss your old dad; like as not you ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
... that? We didn't boggle about doing it with one of the Queen's ships, so you don't suppose that dad would make much bones about refusing to strike to ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... thinking of your grace at all," said Mr. Caryll, slightly piqued by the tone the other took with him. "But to relieve your mind of such doubts as I see you entertain, I can assure you that it is out of no motives of weakness that I boggle at this combat. Though I confess that I am no ferrailleur, and that I abhor the duel as a means of settling a difference just as I abhor all things that are stupid and insensate, yet I am not the man to shirk an encounter where an encounter ...
— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini
... Medusa's head in wrath, and who was, I think, fonder of the sound than any other of our poets. Indeed, in compounds of the kind we always make a distinction wholly independent of the doubled s. Nobody would boggle at mountainside; no one would dream of saying on the ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell


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