boggles

Verb

boggle (third-person singular simple present boggles, present participle boggling, simple past and past participle boggled)

1. (intransitive, transitive) (literally or figuratively) to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle.
   • The dogs went on, but the horse boggled at the sudden appearance of the strange beast.
2. (intransitive) To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
   • He boggled at the surprising news.
3. (transitive) To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
   • The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
4. (US, dialectal) To embarrass with difficulties; to palter or equivocate; to bungle or botch
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To dissemble; to play fast and loose (with someone or something).
   • 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...1643, James Howell, The True Informer, London, page 32
6. (intransitive) To wiggle the eyes as a result of bruxing.

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