bogglen.

/ˈbɒɡ(ə)l/

Etymology: < boggle v.

1. The act of boggling as a horse. †to take boggle: to shy with fright, to take alarm.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > start with fear

stiga1400

startle1530

boggle1598

to take boggle1660

sturt1786

1660 G. Fleming Stemma Sacrvm 30 They had taken boggle at some State overtures.

1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ His skaddle tit, glentin its ee up at me, took boggle, maad a girt flounder, an ran back.

2. Demur, scruple, objection, difficulty, fuss; chiefly in to make boggle. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)]

nillOE

loathea1200

to make it tough1297

forthinka1300

reckc1300

ruea1400

to make (it) strangec1405

to make strangenessc1407

stick1418

resistc1425

to make (it) strange?1456

steek1478

tarrowc1480

doubt1483

sunyie1488

to make (it) nice1530

stay1533

shentc1540

to make courtesy (at)1542

to make it scrupulous1548

to think (it) much1548

to make dainty of (anything)1555

to lie aback1560

stand1563

steek1573

to hang back1581

erch1584

to make doubt1586

to hang the groin1587

to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589

yearn1597

to hang the winga1601

to make squeamish1611

smay1632

bogglea1638

to hang off1641

waver1643

reluct1648

shy1650

reluctate1655

stickle1656

scruple1660

to make boggle1667

revere1689

begrudge1690

to have scruples1719

stopc1738

bitch1777

reprobate1779

crane1823

disincline1885

1667 S. Pepys Diary 6 Aug. (1974) VIII. 375 The Dutch do make a further bogle with us about two or three things.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. 140 The plain man makes no boggle at the ideas of creation, annihilation, or vacuity.

3. A bungle. boggle-de-botch, boggledy botch (colloquial): a complete bungle, a ‘mess’. See botch v.¹, botch n.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > a bungle

miscarriage1590

bungle1656

bumble1823

boggle1834

muff1867

car wreck1877

mismove1877

miscue1882

muddle1884

bobble1887

mess-up1902

floater1913

bollock1919

fluff1928

balls-up1929

muck-up1930

balls1938

snafu1943

foul-up1944

fuck-up1949

clusterfuck1969

car crash1992

dumpster fire2008

omnishambles2009

1834 M. Edgeworth Helen II. x. 206 A fine boggle-de-botch I have made of it.

1841 W. Gresley Charles Lever 21 What a boggle he did make of it to be sure.

1862 Sat. Rev. 13 121 Jones of the 43rd, who got into that boggle in Armenia.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

bogglev.

/ˈbɒɡ(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1500s buggell, 1600s bogle.

Etymology: apparently < boggle, variant of bogle n. a spectre, (such as horses are reputed to see). In later times there has been a tendency to associate the word with bungle , which appears in sense 4, and in the derivatives.

1. intransitive. To start with fright, to shy as a startled horse; to take alarm, be startled, scared at.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > start with fear

stiga1400

startle1530

boggle1598

to take boggle1660

sturt1786

1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades x. 420 They [steeds] should not with affright Boggle, nor snore.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 236 You boggle shrewdly, euery feather starts you.

a1642 J. Suckling Brennoralt (1646) iv. i. 35 Thou..Boglest at every thing, foole.

1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 612 Balaam..spurs on his conscience (that boggl'd more than the Asse he rode on).

1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles xi. 84 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) We Boggle at our own Shadows, and Fright one Another.

1769 Wesley in Wks. (1872) III. 373 The shaft-horse then boggled and turned short toward the edge of the precipice.

1865 M. E. Braddon Doctor's Wife x. 93 Boggling a little when she turned the corners.

2. To raise scruples, hesitate, demur, stickle (at, occasionally about, over, etc., or to do a thing).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)]

nillOE

loathea1200

to make it tough1297

forthinka1300

reckc1300

ruea1400

to make (it) strangec1405

to make strangenessc1407

stick1418

resistc1425

to make (it) strange?1456

steek1478

tarrowc1480

doubt1483

sunyie1488

to make (it) nice1530

stay1533

shentc1540

to make courtesy (at)1542

to make it scrupulous1548

to think (it) much1548

to make dainty of (anything)1555

to lie aback1560

stand1563

steek1573

to hang back1581

erch1584

to make doubt1586

to hang the groin1587

to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589

yearn1597

to hang the winga1601

to make squeamish1611

smay1632

bogglea1638

to hang off1641

waver1643

reluct1648

shy1650

reluctate1655

stickle1656

scruple1660

to make boggle1667

revere1689

begrudge1690

to have scruples1719

stopc1738

bitch1777

reprobate1779

crane1823

disincline1885

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) i. xxxvii. 202 A Sound and Loyal heart is not that which boggles and scruples at small sins.

1668 S. Pepys Diary 30 Mar. (1976) IX. 140 I find the Parliament still bogling about the raising of this money.

1689 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) xxxix. 287 They would not bogle to give 1000 Sesterces.

1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. v. x, in Wks. 125 He never Shrunk or Boggled for the Matter.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. ⁋115 He boggled at first against testifying at all.

1798 M. Wollstonecraft Posthumous Wks. IV. lxviii. 8 Since you boggle about a mere form.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 240 Nor do thou Boggle, oh parent, to return the grace.

1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §6. 336 One, who was known to have boggled hard at the oath.

3. ‘To play fast or loose’ (Johnson); to palter, quibble, equivocate.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)]

haft1519

shuffle1565

dodge1575

palter1580

shift1580

hedge1611

boggle1615

subterfuge1622

prevaricatea1625

to shuffle up and down1633

evade1660

sophisticate1664

janka1689

whiffle1737

tongue-twist1836

caffle1851

pussyfoot1902

sidestep1904

spruce1916

to fudge and mudge1980

1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. M8^v Hee doth boggle very often.

a1649 W. Drummond Skiamachia in Wks. (1711) 199 Are ye not afraid to boggle thus with God Almighty?

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 206 He boggled so much in his Answer, that they would be of opinion that [etc.].

1816 W. Hazlitt Modern Apost. They have never sneaked nor shuffled, botched or boggled in their politics.

4. To fumble, bungle, make a clumsy attempt.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > bungle

bungle1549

to put the wrong foot before1590

bebotch1609

to put one's foot in (also into) it1796

mess1823

boggle1853

to make a muff of oneself1884

duff1890

bobble1908

miscue1941

blow1943

to make a porridge (of)1969

sheg1981

1536 H. Latimer Let. 8 Jan. in Serm. & Remains (1845) (modernized text) II. 373 If I have one there to help me, I shall do the more good; if not I shall boggle [MS buggell] myself as well as I can.]

1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester II. 9 He boggled at the lock for a minute or two, but at last admitted himself.

1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope vii. 169 He uses only one epithet, but it is the right one, and never boggles and patches.

†5. transitive. To cause to hesitate, to scare. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > cause to hesitate

boggle1663

1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 155 This bogled at first three quarters of them.

Draft additions June 2007

transitive. To confound, bewilder; to amaze, astound. Now chiefly in to boggle the mind: to be bewildering, astounding, or mentally overwhelming; cf. the mind boggles at mind n.¹ 19k.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)]

abobc1330

confusec1350

confoundc1374

cumbera1375

passc1384

maskerc1400

mopc1425

enose1430

manga1450

overmusec1460

perplex1477

maze1482

enmuse1502

ruffle?a1505

unsteady1532

entangle1540

duddle1548

intricate1548

distraught1579

distract1582

mizzle1583

moider1587

amuse1595

mist1598

bepuzzle1599

gravel1601

plunder1601

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intrigue1612

vexa1613

metagrobolize?a1616

befumea1618

fuddle1617

crucify1621

bumfiddlea1625

implicate1625

giddify1628

wilder1642

buzzlea1644

empuzzle1646

dunce1649

addle1652

meander1652

emberlucock1653

flounder1654

study1654

disorient1655

embarrass?1656

essome1660

embrangle1664

jumble1668

dunt1672

muse1673

clutter1685

emblustricate1693

fluster1720

disorientate1728

obfuscate1729

fickle1736

flustrate1797

unharmonize1797

mystify1806

maffle1811

boggle1835

unballast1836

stomber1841

throw1844

serpentine1850

unbalance1856

tickle1865

fog1872

bumfuzzle1878

wander1897

to put off1909

defeat1914

dither1919

befuddle1926

ungear1931

to screw up1941

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy

awhapec1300

stonyc1330

astony1340

astonec1374

mazec1390

stounda1400

stuna1400

to-stony?a1400

stounc1400

clumsec1440

overmusec1460

stonish1488

strike1533

dazzle1561

stoyne1563

stupefy1577

stupefact1583

obstupefy1611

astound1637

petrify1667

flabbergast1773

stagnatea1798

stama1800

swarf1813

boggle1835

razzle-dazzle1886

to knock sideways1890

stupend1900

gobsmack1987

1835 W. G. Simms Partisan I. viii. 95 He contrived to boggle them continually in perpetual intricacies, each more difficult than the other.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker ii. 36 The ocean might dry up, the rocks melt in the sun..and there was nothing in these incidents to boggle the philosopher.

1934 V. Woolf Let. 15 Feb. (1979) V. 277 What Angelica will live to see boggles me.

1958 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 28 A few years ago the idea of a man-made star no bigger than a grapefruit tracking through space would have boggled the mind.

1983 Black Perspective in Music 11 12 The multitude of magnificent vegetation draping the mountains took on a hue of colors that boggled the mind.

1992 I. Rankin Strip Jack (1993) v. 108 The headline writers were boggled, trying to decide which order to put things in.

2000 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Apr. 36/5 The sums staked on the next generation of mobile phones continue to boggle the mind.

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

单词	boggle
释义	bogglen. /ˈbɒɡ(ə)l/ Etymology: < boggle v. 1. The act of boggling as a horse. †to take boggle: to shy with fright, to take alarm. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > start with fear stiga1400 startle1530 boggle1598 to take boggle1660 sturt1786 1660 G. Fleming Stemma Sacrvm 30 They had taken boggle at some State overtures. 1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ His skaddle tit, glentin its ee up at me, took boggle, maad a girt flounder, an ran back. 2. Demur, scruple, objection, difficulty, fuss; chiefly in to make boggle. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)] nillOE loathea1200 to make it tough1297 forthinka1300 reckc1300 ruea1400 to make (it) strangec1405 to make strangenessc1407 stick1418 resistc1425 to make (it) strange?1456 steek1478 tarrowc1480 doubt1483 sunyie1488 to make (it) nice1530 stay1533 shentc1540 to make courtesy (at)1542 to make it scrupulous1548 to think (it) much1548 to make dainty of (anything)1555 to lie aback1560 stand1563 steek1573 to hang back1581 erch1584 to make doubt1586 to hang the groin1587 to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589 yearn1597 to hang the winga1601 to make squeamish1611 smay1632 bogglea1638 to hang off1641 waver1643 reluct1648 shy1650 reluctate1655 stickle1656 scruple1660 to make boggle1667 revere1689 begrudge1690 to have scruples1719 stopc1738 bitch1777 reprobate1779 crane1823 disincline1885 1667 S. Pepys Diary 6 Aug. (1974) VIII. 375 The Dutch do make a further bogle with us about two or three things. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. 140 The plain man makes no boggle at the ideas of creation, annihilation, or vacuity. 3. A bungle. boggle-de-botch, boggledy botch (colloquial): a complete bungle, a ‘mess’. See botch v.¹, botch n.² ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > a bungle miscarriage1590 bungle1656 bumble1823 boggle1834 muff1867 car wreck1877 mismove1877 miscue1882 muddle1884 bobble1887 mess-up1902 floater1913 bollock1919 fluff1928 balls-up1929 muck-up1930 balls1938 snafu1943 foul-up1944 fuck-up1949 clusterfuck1969 car crash1992 dumpster fire2008 omnishambles2009 1834 M. Edgeworth Helen II. x. 206 A fine boggle-de-botch I have made of it. 1841 W. Gresley Charles Lever 21 What a boggle he did make of it to be sure. 1862 Sat. Rev. 13 121 Jones of the 43rd, who got into that boggle in Armenia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019). bogglev. /ˈbɒɡ(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1500s buggell, 1600s bogle. Etymology: apparently < boggle, variant of bogle n. a spectre, (such as horses are reputed to see). In later times there has been a tendency to associate the word with bungle , which appears in sense 4, and in the derivatives. 1. intransitive. To start with fright, to shy as a startled horse; to take alarm, be startled, scared at. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > start with fear stiga1400 startle1530 boggle1598 to take boggle1660 sturt1786 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades x. 420 They [steeds] should not with affright Boggle, nor snore. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 236 You boggle shrewdly, euery feather starts you. View more context for this quotation a1642 J. Suckling Brennoralt (1646) iv. i. 35 Thou..Boglest at every thing, foole. 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 612 Balaam..spurs on his conscience (that boggl'd more than the Asse he rode on). 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles xi. 84 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) We Boggle at our own Shadows, and Fright one Another. 1769 Wesley in Wks. (1872) III. 373 The shaft-horse then boggled and turned short toward the edge of the precipice. 1865 M. E. Braddon Doctor's Wife x. 93 Boggling a little when she turned the corners. 2. To raise scruples, hesitate, demur, stickle (at, occasionally about, over, etc., or to do a thing). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)] nillOE loathea1200 to make it tough1297 forthinka1300 reckc1300 ruea1400 to make (it) strangec1405 to make strangenessc1407 stick1418 resistc1425 to make (it) strange?1456 steek1478 tarrowc1480 doubt1483 sunyie1488 to make (it) nice1530 stay1533 shentc1540 to make courtesy (at)1542 to make it scrupulous1548 to think (it) much1548 to make dainty of (anything)1555 to lie aback1560 stand1563 steek1573 to hang back1581 erch1584 to make doubt1586 to hang the groin1587 to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589 yearn1597 to hang the winga1601 to make squeamish1611 smay1632 bogglea1638 to hang off1641 waver1643 reluct1648 shy1650 reluctate1655 stickle1656 scruple1660 to make boggle1667 revere1689 begrudge1690 to have scruples1719 stopc1738 bitch1777 reprobate1779 crane1823 disincline1885 a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) i. xxxvii. 202 A Sound and Loyal heart is not that which boggles and scruples at small sins. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 30 Mar. (1976) IX. 140 I find the Parliament still bogling about the raising of this money. 1689 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) xxxix. 287 They would not bogle to give 1000 Sesterces. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. v. x, in Wks. 125 He never Shrunk or Boggled for the Matter. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. ⁋115 He boggled at first against testifying at all. 1798 M. Wollstonecraft Posthumous Wks. IV. lxviii. 8 Since you boggle about a mere form. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 240 Nor do thou Boggle, oh parent, to return the grace. 1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §6. 336 One, who was known to have boggled hard at the oath. 3. ‘To play fast or loose’ (Johnson); to palter, quibble, equivocate. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > act evasively [verb (intransitive)] haft1519 shuffle1565 dodge1575 palter1580 shift1580 hedge1611 boggle1615 subterfuge1622 prevaricatea1625 to shuffle up and down1633 evade1660 sophisticate1664 janka1689 whiffle1737 tongue-twist1836 caffle1851 pussyfoot1902 sidestep1904 spruce1916 to fudge and mudge1980 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. M8^v Hee doth boggle very often. a1649 W. Drummond Skiamachia in Wks. (1711) 199 Are ye not afraid to boggle thus with God Almighty? 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 206 He boggled so much in his Answer, that they would be of opinion that [etc.]. 1816 W. Hazlitt Modern Apost. They have never sneaked nor shuffled, botched or boggled in their politics. 4. To fumble, bungle, make a clumsy attempt. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > bungle bungle1549 to put the wrong foot before1590 bebotch1609 to put one's foot in (also into) it1796 mess1823 boggle1853 to make a muff of oneself1884 duff1890 bobble1908 miscue1941 blow1943 to make a porridge (of)1969 sheg1981 1536 H. Latimer Let. 8 Jan. in Serm. & Remains (1845) (modernized text) II. 373 If I have one there to help me, I shall do the more good; if not I shall boggle [MS buggell] myself as well as I can.] 1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester II. 9 He boggled at the lock for a minute or two, but at last admitted himself. 1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope vii. 169 He uses only one epithet, but it is the right one, and never boggles and patches. †5. transitive. To cause to hesitate, to scare. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > cause to hesitate boggle1663 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 155 This bogled at first three quarters of them. Draft additions June 2007 transitive. To confound, bewilder; to amaze, astound. Now chiefly in to boggle the mind: to be bewildering, astounding, or mentally overwhelming; cf. the mind boggles at mind n.¹ 19k. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)] abobc1330 confusec1350 confoundc1374 cumbera1375 passc1384 maskerc1400 mopc1425 enose1430 manga1450 overmusec1460 perplex1477 maze1482 enmuse1502 ruffle?a1505 unsteady1532 entangle1540 duddle1548 intricate1548 distraught1579 distract1582 mizzle1583 moider1587 amuse1595 mist1598 bepuzzle1599 gravel1601 plunder1601 puzzle1603 intrigue1612 vexa1613 metagrobolize?a1616 befumea1618 fuddle1617 crucify1621 bumfiddlea1625 implicate1625 giddify1628 wilder1642 buzzlea1644 empuzzle1646 dunce1649 addle1652 meander1652 emberlucock1653 flounder1654 study1654 disorient1655 embarrass?1656 essome1660 embrangle1664 jumble1668 dunt1672 muse1673 clutter1685 emblustricate1693 fluster1720 disorientate1728 obfuscate1729 fickle1736 flustrate1797 unharmonize1797 mystify1806 maffle1811 boggle1835 unballast1836 stomber1841 throw1844 serpentine1850 unbalance1856 tickle1865 fog1872 bumfuzzle1878 wander1897 to put off1909 defeat1914 dither1919 befuddle1926 ungear1931 to screw up1941 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > cause wonder, astonish [verb (transitive)] > stupefy awhapec1300 stonyc1330 astony1340 astonec1374 mazec1390 stounda1400 stuna1400 to-stony?a1400 stounc1400 clumsec1440 overmusec1460 stonish1488 strike1533 dazzle1561 stoyne1563 stupefy1577 stupefact1583 obstupefy1611 astound1637 petrify1667 flabbergast1773 stagnatea1798 stama1800 swarf1813 boggle1835 razzle-dazzle1886 to knock sideways1890 stupend1900 gobsmack1987 1835 W. G. Simms Partisan I. viii. 95 He contrived to boggle them continually in perpetual intricacies, each more difficult than the other. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker ii. 36 The ocean might dry up, the rocks melt in the sun..and there was nothing in these incidents to boggle the philosopher. 1934 V. Woolf Let. 15 Feb. (1979) V. 277 What Angelica will live to see boggles me. 1958 N.Y. Times 8 Apr. 28 A few years ago the idea of a man-made star no bigger than a grapefruit tracking through space would have boggled the mind. 1983 Black Perspective in Music 11 12 The multitude of magnificent vegetation draping the mountains took on a hue of colors that boggled the mind. 1992 I. Rankin Strip Jack (1993) v. 108 The headline writers were boggled, trying to decide which order to put things in. 2000 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Apr. 36/5 The sums staked on the next generation of mobile phones continue to boggle the mind. 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