boggle
verb /ˈbɒɡl/
/ˈbɑːɡl/
[intransitive] (informal)Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they boggle | /ˈbɒɡl/ /ˈbɑːɡl/ |
| he / she / it boggles | /ˈbɒɡlz/ /ˈbɑːɡlz/ |
| past simple boggled | /ˈbɒɡld/ /ˈbɑːɡld/ |
| past participle boggled | /ˈbɒɡld/ /ˈbɑːɡld/ |
| -ing form boggling | /ˈbɒɡlɪŋ/ /ˈbɑːɡlɪŋ/ |
- boggle (at something) to be slow to do or accept something because you are surprised or shocked by it
- Even I boggle at the idea of spending so much money.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBoggle is used with these nouns as the object:- mind
Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably of dialect origin and related to bogle, a phantom or goblin and bogey ‘thing that causes fear’.
Idioms
something boggles the mind
(also the mind boggles)
- (informal) if something boggles the mind or the mind boggles at it, it is so unusual that people find it hard to imagine or accept
- The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
- ‘He says he's married to his cats!’ ‘The mind boggles!’