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Definition of Boggler
1. n. One who boggles.
Definition of Boggler
1. Noun. One who boggles. ¹
2. Noun. Something puzzling or confusing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boggler
1. one that causes another to boggle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boggler
Literary usage of Boggler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"boggler [baug'lur]. A horse given to stumbling, but not actually to falling.
BOGY [boa'gee], sb. A spectre, a black demon, a common nursery ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Philpot. BOGGLE. "Boggle about the stacks" is a favourite game amongst children
in the North, in which one hunts several others. boggler. A vicious woman. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1876)
"It is one of the leading characters in the Pantomime who speaks :— Shatter-pate,
swing-buckler, boggler, ..."
4. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"boggler. One who boggle»; but in the following passage a vicious woman, one who
starts from the right path : You have been a ..."
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