Boggle: Definition and part of speech

Boggle

  1. v. t. To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
  2. n. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
  3. n. To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
  4. n. To play fast and loose; to dissemble.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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