bogusn.¹adj.

Brit.

/ˈbəʊɡəs/, U.S.

/ˈboʊɡəs/

Etymology: A cant word of U.S., about the origin of which many guesses have been made, and ‘bogus’ derivations circumstantially given. Dr. S. Willard, of Chicago, in a letter to the editor of this Dictionary, quotes from the Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph of July 6 and Nov. 2, 1827, the word bogus as a noun applied to an apparatus for coining false money. Mr. Eber D. Howe, who was then editor of that paper, describes in his Autobiography (1878) the discovery of such a piece of mechanism in the hands of a gang of coiners at Painesville, in May 1827; it was a mysterious-looking object, and some one in the crowd styled it a ‘bogus’, a designation adopted in the succeeding numbers of the paper. Dr. Willard considers this to have been short for tantrabogus , a word familiar to him from his childhood, and which in his father's time was commonly applied in Vermont to any ill-looking object; he points out that tantarabobs is given in Halliwell as a Devonshire word for the devil. bogus n.¹ and adj. seems thus to be related to bogy n.¹, etc.

A. n.¹

†

a. An apparatus for counterfeit coining. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [noun] > apparatus

bogus1827

bogus machine1844

1827 Painesville Tel. (Ohio) 6 July That he never procured the casting of a Bogus at one of our furnaces.

1827 Painesville Tel. (Ohio) 2 Nov. The eight or ten boguses which have been for some time in operation.

b. bogus press, bogus machine = sense A. a.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [noun] > apparatus

bogus1827

bogus machine1844

1844 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 12 Oct. A bogus press for making counterfeit money.

1850 Frontier Guardian 23 Jan. We employed that same Bill Hickman to ferret out a bogus press and a gang of counterfeiters... A part of the bogus machine has been found.

c. Counterfeit coin. Also in combinations.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > false coin > [noun]

scruff1559

countera1616

smash1795

shan1815

queer1819

sheen1839

bogus1842

1842 Life in West 297 They had attempted to pass bogus (base coin).

1844 Nauvoo Neighbor 12 June To bolster up the interests of blacklegs and bogus-makers.

1848 W. E. Burton Waggeries (Philad.) 90 No luggage, nor no nothing, but a roll of bogus.

1854 B. Young in Jrnl. Discourses I. 270 The Magicians of Egypt..produced a very good bogus, but it was not quite the true coin.

B. adj.

Counterfeit, spurious, fictitious, sham: ‘originally applied to counterfeit coin’ (Webster).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [adjective]

falsec1000

badc1405

counterfeit1556

queer1740

forged1817

wild cat1838

bogus1839

smashing1857

counterfeited1886

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective]

counterfeitedc1385

counterfeitc1386

trothlessa1393

bastard1397

forged1484

apocryphate1486

adulterate?a1509

mockisha1513

sophisticate1531

adulterine1542

adulterous1547

mock1548

forbate1558

coined1582

firking1594

feigned1598

adulterated1610

apocryphal1612

spurious1615

usurpeda1616

impostured1619

mock-madea1625

suppository1641

affictitious1656

pasteboard1659

sophisticated1673

flam1678

Brummagem1679

sham1681

belieda1718

fictitious1739

Birmingham1785

pinchbeck1790

brummish1803

Brum1805

flash1812

spurious1830

bogus1839

imitative1839

dummy1846

doctored1853

postiche1854

pseudo1854

Brummagemish1855

snide1859

inauthentic1860

fake1879

bum1884

Brummie1886

tin1886

filled1887

duff1889

faked1890

shicec1890

margarine1891

dud1904

Potemkin village1904

mocked-up1919

phoney baloney1936

four-flushing1942

bodgie1956

moody1958

disauthentic1960

bodgied1988

bodgied-up1988

1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxxii. 212 The boxes..contained..half-dollars ‘principally bogus’.

1842 J. A. Clark Gleanings by Way 340 Guilty of..cheating, selling bogus money (base coin).

1852 Hughes in J. M. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 338 This precious house of representatives—the bogus legislature, as it was at once called.

1857 Boston Daily Courier 12 June The learned Judge took occasion to manifest his abhorrence of the use of slang phrases..by saying that he did not know the meaning of ‘bogus transactions’.

1859 ‘Dow, Jr.’ New Patent Serm. 216 Crocodile tears are bogus.

1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 582 A mere juggle, or as Americans would say, a ‘bogus’ parliament.

1874 M. Collins & F. Collins Frances III. 80 They've got some good money, as well as bogus notes.

1877 R. Giffen Stock Exchange Securities 65 A bogus Company..instead of paying dividends to its Shareholders, goes into Liquidation.

1878 W. Black Green Pastures xxv. 202 I am not going to spend a penny in a bogus contest.

1892 G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits (1932) 243 Mr. Frederic Harrison deliberately talked bogus Shelleyism to the reporters.

1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie xvi. 244 I also hoped they would show people here that the whole thing was bogus.

1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags i. §6. 68 You..haven't got any of those bogus regional connections like the Scots and Irish and Welsh.

Draft additions January 2011

bogus caller n. a person who visits or telephones someone under false pretences; spec. (chiefly British) one who poses as being on official business in order to enter someone's home (esp. that of an elderly person) for the purpose of theft or fraud.

ΚΠ

1917 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 10 Aug. 1/2 Employe at Karl G. Roebling home tells police of bogus callers.

1967 Guardian 22 Feb. 4/6 This deprives the criminals of a cherished advantage, the belief that old people..would be so terrified by their experience that they would find it impossible to identify the bogus callers.

1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Feb. a4 (heading) Bogus callers arouse suspicion in N.H. campaign.

1990 Independent (Nexis) 17 May 6 Bogus callers: Police have recently recorded 60 unexplained home visits by bogus social workers and health visitors.

2004 Daily Tel. 25 Oct. 9/7 Burglaries by bogus callers are running at more than 40 a day after the Home Office began measuring ‘distraction burglaries’ separately.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bogus
释义	bogusn.¹adj. Brit. /ˈbəʊɡəs/, U.S. /ˈboʊɡəs/ Etymology: A cant word of U.S., about the origin of which many guesses have been made, and ‘bogus’ derivations circumstantially given. Dr. S. Willard, of Chicago, in a letter to the editor of this Dictionary, quotes from the Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph of July 6 and Nov. 2, 1827, the word bogus as a noun applied to an apparatus for coining false money. Mr. Eber D. Howe, who was then editor of that paper, describes in his Autobiography (1878) the discovery of such a piece of mechanism in the hands of a gang of coiners at Painesville, in May 1827; it was a mysterious-looking object, and some one in the crowd styled it a ‘bogus’, a designation adopted in the succeeding numbers of the paper. Dr. Willard considers this to have been short for tantrabogus , a word familiar to him from his childhood, and which in his father's time was commonly applied in Vermont to any ill-looking object; he points out that tantarabobs is given in Halliwell as a Devonshire word for the devil. bogus n.¹ and adj. seems thus to be related to bogy n.¹, etc. A. n.¹ † a. An apparatus for counterfeit coining. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [noun] > apparatus bogus1827 bogus machine1844 1827 Painesville Tel. (Ohio) 6 July That he never procured the casting of a Bogus at one of our furnaces. 1827 Painesville Tel. (Ohio) 2 Nov. The eight or ten boguses which have been for some time in operation. b. bogus press, bogus machine = sense A. a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [noun] > apparatus bogus1827 bogus machine1844 1844 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 12 Oct. A bogus press for making counterfeit money. 1850 Frontier Guardian 23 Jan. We employed that same Bill Hickman to ferret out a bogus press and a gang of counterfeiters... A part of the bogus machine has been found. c. Counterfeit coin. Also in combinations. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > false coin > [noun] scruff1559 countera1616 smash1795 shan1815 queer1819 sheen1839 bogus1842 1842 Life in West 297 They had attempted to pass bogus (base coin). 1844 Nauvoo Neighbor 12 June To bolster up the interests of blacklegs and bogus-makers. 1848 W. E. Burton Waggeries (Philad.) 90 No luggage, nor no nothing, but a roll of bogus. 1854 B. Young in Jrnl. Discourses I. 270 The Magicians of Egypt..produced a very good bogus, but it was not quite the true coin. B. adj. Counterfeit, spurious, fictitious, sham: ‘originally applied to counterfeit coin’ (Webster). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > counterfeiting > [adjective] falsec1000 badc1405 counterfeit1556 queer1740 forged1817 wild cat1838 bogus1839 smashing1857 counterfeited1886 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] counterfeitedc1385 counterfeitc1386 trothlessa1393 bastard1397 forged1484 apocryphate1486 adulterate?a1509 mockisha1513 sophisticate1531 adulterine1542 adulterous1547 mock1548 forbate1558 coined1582 firking1594 feigned1598 adulterated1610 apocryphal1612 spurious1615 usurpeda1616 impostured1619 mock-madea1625 suppository1641 affictitious1656 pasteboard1659 sophisticated1673 flam1678 Brummagem1679 sham1681 belieda1718 fictitious1739 Birmingham1785 pinchbeck1790 brummish1803 Brum1805 flash1812 spurious1830 bogus1839 imitative1839 dummy1846 doctored1853 postiche1854 pseudo1854 Brummagemish1855 snide1859 inauthentic1860 fake1879 bum1884 Brummie1886 tin1886 filled1887 duff1889 faked1890 shicec1890 margarine1891 dud1904 Potemkin village1904 mocked-up1919 phoney baloney1936 four-flushing1942 bodgie1956 moody1958 disauthentic1960 bodgied1988 bodgied-up1988 1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xxxii. 212 The boxes..contained..half-dollars ‘principally bogus’. 1842 J. A. Clark Gleanings by Way 340 Guilty of..cheating, selling bogus money (base coin). 1852 Hughes in J. M. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 338 This precious house of representatives—the bogus legislature, as it was at once called. 1857 Boston Daily Courier 12 June The learned Judge took occasion to manifest his abhorrence of the use of slang phrases..by saying that he did not know the meaning of ‘bogus transactions’. 1859 ‘Dow, Jr.’ New Patent Serm. 216 Crocodile tears are bogus. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 582 A mere juggle, or as Americans would say, a ‘bogus’ parliament. 1874 M. Collins & F. Collins Frances III. 80 They've got some good money, as well as bogus notes. 1877 R. Giffen Stock Exchange Securities 65 A bogus Company..instead of paying dividends to its Shareholders, goes into Liquidation. 1878 W. Black Green Pastures xxv. 202 I am not going to spend a penny in a bogus contest. 1892 G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits (1932) 243 Mr. Frederic Harrison deliberately talked bogus Shelleyism to the reporters. 1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie xvi. 244 I also hoped they would show people here that the whole thing was bogus. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags i. §6. 68 You..haven't got any of those bogus regional connections like the Scots and Irish and Welsh. Draft additions January 2011 bogus caller n. a person who visits or telephones someone under false pretences; spec. (chiefly British) one who poses as being on official business in order to enter someone's home (esp. that of an elderly person) for the purpose of theft or fraud. ΚΠ 1917 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 10 Aug. 1/2 Employe at Karl G. Roebling home tells police of bogus callers. 1967 Guardian 22 Feb. 4/6 This deprives the criminals of a cherished advantage, the belief that old people..would be so terrified by their experience that they would find it impossible to identify the bogus callers. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Feb. a4 (heading) Bogus callers arouse suspicion in N.H. campaign. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 17 May 6 Bogus callers: Police have recently recorded 60 unexplained home visits by bogus social workers and health visitors. 2004 Daily Tel. 25 Oct. 9/7 Burglaries by bogus callers are running at more than 40 a day after the Home Office began measuring ‘distraction burglaries’ separately. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bogusn.² Brit. /ˈbəʊɡəs/, U.S. /ˈboʊɡəs/ Etymology: Has been conjectured to be < French bagasse sugar-cane refuse; but perhaps is the same word as bogus n.¹ U.S. Categories » ‘A liquor made of rum and molasses.’ Bartlett Dict. Americanisms This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹adj.1827n.²
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