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Definition of Boggled
1. boggle [v] - See also: boggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boggled
Literary usage of Boggled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion, Herbert George Wells (1919)
"... E- required some courage, and I boggled at one or and left them out September 5.
Leap-frog Some girls up the road spent a very wet Sunday playing ..."
2. Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think by Charles Caleb Colton (1837)
"He must immediately get up and say something, and if he be not previously prepared
with an answer to your last argument, he will infallibly be boggled, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"To hesitate about agreeing to anything. " A boggled a goodish bit ... The good
Saint Anthony " boggled " his eyes, So firmly fixed on the old black book, ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The master of ceremonies ... seemed to boggle everything that seemingly could be
boggled —Rust Hills, Esquire, September 1974 The intransitive uses have not ..."
5. Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon by Theresa Lewis (1852)
"1 Lord Fairfax neither " boggled" nor disowned the meaning he had originally
given to the terms of surrender. The guilt of perverting the meaning of his ..."
6. Lectures of George Thompson: With a Full Report of the Discussion Between Mr by George Thompson, William Lloyd Garrison, Peter Borthwick (1836)
"Then, after quoting the Jewish law, he tried to bring the precepts of Christianity
to his aid, but it will be in your recollection how he—boggled, ..."
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