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Boggle

verb

(past & past part. boggled; pres. part. boggling)

Startle with amazement or fear.

Hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear.

Overcome with amazement. Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast.

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"Boggle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Countess). Take care you heat his fancy and affections— Possess him with a reverie, and send him, Absent and dreaming, to the banquet; that He may not boggle at the signature. 25 ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... am led to imagine, that you have formed some new attachment.—If it be so, let me earnestly request you to see me once more, and immediately. This is the only proof I require of the friendship you profess for me. I will then decide, since you boggle about ...

— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft

... have formed some new attachment. If it be so, let me earnestly request you to see me once more, and immediately. This is the only proof I require of the friendship you profess for me. I will then decide, since you boggle about a mere form. ...

— Mary Wollstonecraft • Elizabeth Robins Pennell