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adj. confused and vague; used especially of thinking. a mind befogged with drink
Syn. -- addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, unclear, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A bogey. [ Local, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Boggled p. pr. & vb. n. Boggling ] [ See Bogle, n. ] 1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. [ 1913 Webster ]

We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To play fast and loose; to dissemble. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To doubt; hesitate; shrink; stickle; demur. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who boggles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Doubtful; skittish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.

2. a useless, wasteful, or impractical project; -- especially one authorized by a government agency as a favor to partisans, to employ unemployed people, or in return for corrupt payments. [ PJC ]

v. to do useless, wasteful, or trivial work. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ Dim. of Prov. E. brog to broggle. Cf. Brog, n. ] To sniggle, or fish with a brog. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. obstructed so as to prevent or hinder flow of a fluid; -- of conduits; as, clogged pipes; clogged arteries.
Syn. -- choked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. filled beyond capacity (with people or vehicles), so as to retard movement; as, The store aisles were clogged with shoppers on the day before Christmas.; The clogged highways made me miss my appointment..
Syn. -- choked. [ PJC ]

n. The state of being clogged. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Clogging, or having power to clog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cog to wheedle. ] A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Trick; deception. Bp. Watson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cog small boat. ] A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Cobble a cobblestone. ] A cobblestone. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fron. Dog. ] 1. Sullen; morose. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work; dogged pursuit. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Sullenness; moroseness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D., fr. dogger codfish, orig. used in the catching of codfish. ] (Naut.) A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. dogerel. ] Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. [ 1913 Webster ]

This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sailor belonging to a dogger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Docket. See Docket. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal. -- Dog"gish*ly, adv. -- Dog"gish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Euphemism for God-damn. ] Damn; -- used to express displeasure or annoyance; as, doggone it!. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

a. [ Euphemism from God-damned. ] Damned; confounded; -- used as an expression of displeasure; as, I wish those doggone telemarketers would quit calling at suppertime. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

adv. Damned; darned; -- used as an informal intensifier; as, he's a doggoned good golfer. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

a. & n. Same as Doggerel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who flogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Flog, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. --
Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Agric.) See 1st Fog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fogs; a pettifogger. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A beggarly fogger. Terence in English(1614) [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a foggy manner; obscurely. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being foggy. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Foggier superl. Foggiest. ] [ From 4th Fog. ] 1. Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in frogs. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Goggled p. pr. & vb. n. Goggling ] [ Cf. Ir. & Gael. gog a nod, slight motion. ] To roll the eyes; to stare. [ 1913 Webster ]

And wink and goggle like an owl. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Goggle, v. i. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A strained or affected rolling of the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (a) A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc. (b) Colored glasses for relief from intense light. (c) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting. (d) Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Prominent; staring, as the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchidæ, esp. Chænobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes. (b) The goggler. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra. [ 1913 Webster ]