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Word Meanings - BOGGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth
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1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow. 2. To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully. 3. To play fast and loose; to dissemble. Howell. Syn. -- To doubt; hesitate; shrink; stickle; demur.
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- BOGGLE
1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth - TUMBLERFUL
As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler. - HAGGLE
To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - CHAFFERY
Traffic; bargaining. Spenser. - BARGAINER
One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor. - TUMBLE-DOWN
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. - BUNGLER
A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow. - BLUNDERHEAD
A stupid, blundering fellow. - HIGGLER
One who higgles. - BOGGLER
One who boggles. - WALLOW
1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self - BLUNDERER
One who is apt to blunder. - FLOUNDER
A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species. Note: The common English flounder is Pleuronectes flesus. There are several common American species used as food; as the smooth flounder ; the rough or winter flounder ; the summer flounder, - TUMBLEWEED
Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc. - STICKLEBACK
Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, - BLUNDERING
Characterized by blunders. - BLUNDERINGLY
In a blundering manner. - CHAFFERN
A vessel for heating water. Johnson. - BARGAIN
prob. from a supposed LL. barcaneum, fr. barca a boat which carries merchandise to the shore; hence, to traffic to and fro, to carry on 1. An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself - SWALLOWFISH
The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins. - SWALLOW
Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note: - SEA SWALLOW
See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet. - ENWALLOW
To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.