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Boggles vs Joggles - What's the difference?

boggles | joggles |

As verbs the difference between boggles and joggles

is that boggles is (boggle) while joggles is (joggle).

boggles

English

Verb

(head)
  • (boggle)

    • boggle

    English

    Verb

    (boggl)
  • To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
    • He boggled at the surprising news.
    The mind boggles .
  • * Barrow
    • Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose.
  • * Glanvill
    • We start and boggle at every unusual appearance.
  • To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.
    • The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
    The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.
  • (US, dialect) To embarrass with difficulties; to bungle or botch.
  • (obsolete) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
    • (Howell)

    Derived terms

    * mindboggling

    joggles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (joggle)

    • joggle

    English

    Verb

    (joggl)
  • To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
  • To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
  • To jog or run while juggling.
  • (architecture) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
  • * Gwilt
    • The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
  • (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.