Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A doubter; a timorous man.
- noun A jilt; one false in love.
- noun One who bungles or is clumsy in doing things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who boggles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
boggles . - noun Something
puzzling orconfusing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The real boggler for me is the writer who completely misses the emotional landscape of a period, not just by making the characters modern American or British, but by evoking a completely different period–like the author who is writing Elizabethan but her whole affect is Victorian.
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To think that the martian bacteria were very similar to our own is also a mind boggler!
New Findings On Alan Hills Meteorite Point to Microbial Life | Universe Today 2009
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We will get to the bottom of that mind-boggler in tonight ` s "Top of the Block."
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But before we tackle that mind boggler, "In Touch Weekly" senior editor Amy Palmer joins us.
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In one mind-boggler, a particle of light seems to "know" what experimenters have in store during a "double slit" experiment.
Faster Than What? 2008
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(Why Tony didn't do the same in the Mid-East is a mind-boggler, considering that what he did do has ended his career).
Tony Hendra: With Friends Like Democrats, Who Needs Republicans? 2008
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Commander of the Faithful being a fearful boggler at a sum.
The Haunted House 2007
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Today's post on math-magical thinking is a mind-boggler, with a link to a very cool magic site that will surprise and delight you.
Archive 2007-04-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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Today's post on math-magical thinking is a mind-boggler, with a link to a very cool magic site that will surprise and delight you.
Math Magic Bruce Schauble 2007
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Commander of the Faithful being a fearful boggler at a sum.
The Haunted House 2007
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