From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2009]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
Variation or derivation of [en], possibly cognate with [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] ( literally or figuratively ) to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle .
2. * [V]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1665 | author=Craddock, the elder | title=Knowledge and Practice: or, A Plain Discourse of the Chief Things Necessary ... to Salvation | chapter=XX | page=499
|passage=Do by thy soul, when thou findest it shy of such meditations, as wee
do by our horses, that are given to BOGGLE and start when wee ride them; When
they fly back, and start at anything in the way, we do not yield to their
fear, and go back (that will make them worse another time) but wee ride them
up close to that they are afraid of, and so in time break them of that ill
quality. [1]}}
1. * [year=1962]
2. [en] To be bewildered , dumbfounded , or confused .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1661 | author=w:Joseph Glanvill | title=The Vanity of Dogmatizing | location=London | publisher=Henry Eversden | chapter=14 | page=131 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42833.0001.001
|passage=[...] we start and BOGGLE at what is _unusual_: and like the _Fox_ in
the fable at his first view of the _Lyon_, we cannot endure the sight of the
_Bug-bear_, _Novelty_.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1685 | author=w:Isaac Barrow | title=Of Contentment, Patience and Resignation to the Will of God. Several Sermons | location=London | publisher=Brabazon Aylmer | section=Sermon 4, pp. 127-128 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31073.0001.001
|passage=They are best qualified to thrive in [this world] [...] whose designs
all tend to their own private advantage, without any regard to the publick, or
to the good of others; who can use any means conducible to such designs,
BOGLING at nothing which serveth their purpose [...]}}
1. * 1795 , [Mary Wollstonecraft] , letter to [Gilbert Imlay] dated 4 October, 1795, in _Mary Wollstonecraft: Letters to Imlay_ , London: Kegan Paul, 1879, p. 182, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/letterstoimlaywi00wolluoft </sup>
2. *: From the tenour of your last letter however, I am led to imagine, that you have formed some new attachment.—If it be so, let me earnestly request you to see me once more, and immediately. This is the only proof I require of the friendship you profess for me. I will then decide, since you BOGGLE about a mere form.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1969 | author=w:Maya Angelou | title=w:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | url=https://archive.org/details/iknowwhycagedbi000maya | chapter=15 | page=82 | publisher=Bantam | year_published=1971 | location=New York
|passage=My imagination BOGGLED at the punishment I would deserve [...]}}
1. [en] To confuse or mystify ; overwhelm .
2. * [1=en]
3. [en] To embarrass with difficulties ; to palter or equivocate ; < !--SOED 1967--> to bungle or botch [2]
4. [en] To dissemble ; to play fast and loose ( _with_ someone or something).
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1643 | author=w:James Howell | title=The True Informer | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44760.0001.001 | page=32 | location=London
|passage=I would be loth to exchange consciences with them, and BOGGLE so with
God Almighty; but these men by a new kind of _Metaphysick_ have found out a
way to abstract the _Person_ of the King from his Office to make his
Soveraigntie a kinde of _Platonick Idea_ hovering in the aire, while they
visibly attempt to assail and destroy his person [...]}}
1. [en] To wiggle the eyes as a result of bruxing .
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Czech: [cs] [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to confuse or mystify; overwhelm]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
***** References
References:
[1]. "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 see https://books.google.com/books?id=Tn5mAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA499 1665 publisher=William Grantham, Henry Mortlock, and William Miller
[2]. [R:Webster 1913]
- [boggle]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A scruple or objection .
2. [en] A bungle ; a botched situation.
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] .