Bogus: Definition and part of speech

Bogus

  1. n. A liquor made of rum and molasses.
  2. a. Spurious; fictitious; sham; — a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

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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