Boggle vs Quail - What's the difference?
boggle | quail |
To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
* Barrow
* Glanvill
To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
(US, dialect) To embarrass with difficulties; to bungle or botch.
(obsolete) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
To waste away; to fade, wither.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 358:
To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful.
* Longfellow
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde):
* 1949 , (George Orwell), Nineteen Eighty-Four , p. 25:
To slacken, give way (of courage, faith etc.).
Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix'', ''Anurophasis'' or ''Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
(obsolete) A prostitute; so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
As a verb boggle
is to be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.As a proper noun quail is
.boggle
English
Verb
(boggl)- He boggled at the surprising news.
- The mind boggles .
- Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose.
- We start and boggle at every unusual appearance.
- The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
- The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
- (Howell)
Derived terms
* mindbogglingquail
English
(wikipedia quail)Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to (etyl) queilen.Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.
- Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter.
- Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer; broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.
- His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en-noun)- (Shakespeare)
