Broggled vs Boggled - What's the difference?
broggled | boggled |
(broggle)
(UK, dialect) To sniggle, or fish with a brog.
(label) To poke around, especially poke around in a hole with a stick.
(Webster 1913) (boggle)
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.
As verbs the difference between broggled and boggled
is that broggled is (broggle) while boggled is (boggle).broggled
English
Verb
(head)broggle
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(broggl)- (Wright)
boggled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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)