Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 61
Bode (v. i.) 預示 [（+for）]；bide 的動詞過去式 To foreshow something; to augur.
Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. -- Dryden.
Syn: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.
Bode (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.]
The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. -- Chaucer.
Bode (n.) A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] -- Sir W. Scott
Bode (n.) A messenger; a herald. -- Robertson.
Bode (n.) A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]
Bode (imp. & p. p.) from Bide. Abode.
There that night they bode. -- Tennyson.
Bode (p. p.) Bid or bidden. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Bode (v.) Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}].
Bode, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 327
Housing Units (2000): 168
Land area (2000): 0.409980 sq. miles (1.061843 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.409980 sq. miles (1.061843 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07210
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.867146 N, 94.287910 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50519
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bode, IA
Bode
Bodeful (a.) Portentous; ominous. -- Carlyle.
Bodement (n.) An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.]
This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. -- Shak.
Bodge (n.) A botch; a patch. [Dial.] -- Whitlock.
Bodged (imp. & p. p.) of Bodge
Bodge (v. t.) To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [Obs. or Dial.]
Bodge (v. i.) See Budge. Bodhisattva; Bodhisat.
Bodge (v.) Make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up].
Bodge, () [Commonwealth hackish] Syn. kludge or hack (sense 1). ?I'll bodge this in now and fix it later?.
Bodian (n.) (Zool.) A large food fish ({Diagramma lineatum), native of the East Indies.
Bodice (n.) 婦女服裝的上半部；（穿在上衣外、胸前紮帶的）女用緊身馬甲；婦女緊身胸衣 A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
Bodice (n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.
Her bodice half way she unlaced. -- Prior.
Bodice (n.) Part of a dress above the waist.
Bodiced (a.) Wearing a bodice. -- Thackeray.
Bodied (a.) Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.
A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. -- Hakluyt.
Body (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Bodied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bodying.] To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
To body forth, To give from or shape to mentally.
Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown. -- Shak.
Bodied (a.) Having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination; "strong-bodied"; "big-bodied" [ant: unbodied].
Bodied (a.) Possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate].
Bodiless (a.) Having no body.
Bodiless (a.) Without material form; incorporeal.
Phantoms bodiless and vain. -- Swift.
Bodiless (a.) Not having a material body; "bodiless ghosts" [syn: discorporate, unembodied, bodiless, unbodied, disembodied].
Bodiless (a.) Having no trunk or main part; "a bodiless head" [syn: bodiless, bodyless].
Bodiliness (n.) Corporeality. -- Minsheu.
Bodily (a.) Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.
You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. -- Tatler.
Bodily (a.) Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. "Bodily defects." -- L'Estrange.
Bodily (a.) Real; actual; put in execution. [Obs.]
Be brought to bodily act. -- Shak.
Bodily fear, Apprehension of physical injury.
Syn: See Corporal.
Bodily (adv.) Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. -- Col. ii. 9
Bodily (adv.) In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. "Leapt bodily below." -- Lowell.
Bodily (adv.) In bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven".
Bodily (a.) Of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions".
Bodily (a.) Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness" [syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic].
Bodily (a.) Having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily existence".
Bode (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n. Boding.] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. -- Goldsmith.
Good onset bodes good end. -- Spenser.
Boding (a.) Foreshowing; presaging; ominous. -- Bod"ing*ly, adv.
Boding (n.) A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.
Boding (n.) A feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" [syn: foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding].
Bodkin (n.) A dagger. [Obs.]
When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. -- Shak.
Bodkin (n.) (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a stiletto; an eyeleteer.
Bodkin (n.) (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking out letters from a column or page in making corrections.
Bodkin (n.) 刺針；錐子 A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle.
Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. -- Pope.
Bodkin (n.) 長髮夾 A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.
{To sit}, {ride}, or {travel bodkin}, To sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] -- Thackeray.
Bodkin (n.) See {Baudekin}. [Obs.] -- Shirley.
Bodkin (n.) A dagger with a slender blade [syn: {poniard}, {bodkin}].
Bodkin (n.) Formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head.
Bodkin (n.) A small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric.
Bodkin (n.) A blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops [syn: {bodkin}, {threader}].
Bodle (n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny. -- Sir W. Scott.
Bodleian (a.) Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.
Bodock (n.) The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]
Bodrage (n.) A raid. [Obs.]
Bodies (n. pl. ) of Body.
Body (n.) The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
Absent in body, but present in spirit. -- 1 Cor. v. 3
For of the soul the body form doth take.
For soul is form, and doth the body make. -- Spenser.
Body (n.) The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together? -- Shak.
The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. -- Clarendon.
Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. -- Addison.
Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. -- Col. ii. 17.
Body (n.) A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
A dry, shrewd kind of a body. -- W. Irving.
Body (n.) A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. -- Prescott.
Body (n.) A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.
Body (n.) Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body. "A body of cold air." -- Huxley.
By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. -- Milton.
Body (n.) Amount; quantity; extent.
Body (n.) That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
Body (n.) The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
Body (n.) (Print.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
Body (n.) (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
Body (n.) Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
Note: Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color.
Body (n.) (A["e]ronautics) The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or a["e]rocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc. Also called fuselage.
After body (Naut.), The part of a ship abaft the dead flat.
Body cavity (Anat.), The space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the c[ae]lum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities.
Body of a church, The nave.
Body cloth; (n. pl.) Body cloths, a cloth or blanket for covering horses.
Body clothes. (n. pl.) Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing.
Body clothes. (n. pl.) Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] -- Addison.
Body coat, A gentleman's dress coat.
Body color (Paint.), A pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash.
Body of a law (Law), The main and operative part.
Body louse (Zool.), A species of louse ({Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback.
Body plan (Shipbuilding), An end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length.
Body politic, The collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. -- Wharton.
As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of "people", or "nation". -- Bouvier.
Body servant, A valet.
The bodies seven (Alchemy), The metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.]
Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. -- Chaucer.
Body snatcher, One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist.
Body snatching (Law), The unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.
Bodied (imp. & p. p.) of Body.
Bodying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Body.
Body (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
To body forth, to give from or shape to mentally.
Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown. -- Shak.
Body (n.) The entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" [syn: body, organic structure, physical structure].
Body (n.) A group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body".
Body (n.) A natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake" [syn: body, dead body].
Body (n.) An individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body".
Body (n.) The body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk, body].
Body (n.) A collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents".
Body (n.) The property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency, consistence, eubstance, body].
Body (n.) The central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short".
Body (n.) The main mass of a thing.
Body (n.) A resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) [syn: soundbox, body].
Body (n.) The external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted".
Body (v.) Invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body, personify].
Body. () A person.
Body. () In practice, when the sheriff returns cepi corpus to a capias, the plaintiff may obtain a rule, before special bail has been entered, to bring in the body and this must be done either by committing the defendant or entering special bail. See Dead Body.
Bodyboard (n.) [ C ] (Also boogie board) 衝浪板A short, light board that you lie on and ride over waves on the sea.
Bodyboarding (n.) [ U ] 衝浪（運動） A sport you do using a bodyboard.
Bodyboarding (n.) 臥式衝浪運動 Is a water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore. Bodyboarding is also referred to as Boogieboarding due to the invention of the "Boogie Board" by Tom Morey. The average bodyboarding consists of a short, rectangular piece of hydrodynamic foam. Bodyboarders typically use swim fins for additional propulsion and control while riding a breaking wave.
Bodyguard (n.) 護衛者，保鏢；護衛隊 A guard or group of guards to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
Bodyguard (n.) Retinue; attendance; following. -- Bp. Porteus.
Bodyguard (n.) Someone who escorts and protects a prominent person [syn: {bodyguard}, {escort}].
Bodyguard (n.) A group of men who escort and protect some important person.
Body stocking (n.) [C] （舞蹈演員常穿的）連體緊身衣；上下身貼身衣服（長不過膝） A piece of clothing made of thin material that tightly covers the whole body except for the head, often worn by dancers.
Body stocking (n.) A close-fitting, one-piece garment made of knitted or stretch material and usually covering the feet, legs, trunk, and arms, worn as an exercise costume or under other clothing.
Boeotian (a.) （古希臘）比奧西亞的；比奧西亞人的；愚鈍的 Of or pertaining to Boeotia.
Boeotian (n.) 古希臘畢歐夏住民；愚鈍之人 A native of Boeotia; also, one who is dull and ignorant.
Boeotian (a.) Hence: Stupid; dull; obtuse. -- n. One who is dull and ignorant.
Boeotian (a.) Of or relating to ancient Boeotia or its people or to the dialect spoken there in classical times; "Boeotian dialects".
Boer (n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.
Boer (n.) A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans [syn: Afrikaner, Afrikander, Boer].
Boes (3d sing. pr.) Behoves or behooves. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Bog (n.) 沼澤，泥塘 [C] [U] A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. -- R. Jago.
Bog (n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.]
Bog bean. See Buck bean.
Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter,
Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, The bittern. [Prov.]
Bog butter, A hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.
Bog earth (Min.), A soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. -- P. Cyc.
Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as Sphagnum.
Bog myrtle (Bot.), The sweet gale.
Bog
ore. (Min.) An ore
of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or
limonite.
Bog ore. (Min.) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of
manganese.
Bog rush (Bot.), Any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
Bog spavin. See under Spavin.
Bog (n.) Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel [syn: bog, peat bog].
Bog (v.) (v. t.) 使陷入泥沼；使動彈不得 [H] [（+down）] (v. i.) 陷入泥沼；動彈不得 [（+down）] 名詞複數：bogs; Cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house" [syn: bog down, bog].
Bog (v.) Get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation" [syn: bog down, bog].
Bogged (imp. & p. p.) of Bog.
Bogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bog.
Bog (v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. -- Sir W. Scott.
Bogberry (n.) (Bot.) The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.
Bogey (n.) A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.
Syn: bogeyman.
I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. -- Wm. Black.
Bogey (n.) (Golf) A score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly, the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- it was said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard score is called par.
Bogey (n.) (Mil.) An unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.
Bogy (n.; pl. Bogies.) [See Bogle.] A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. "Death's heads and bogies." -- J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.]
There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. -- C. Kingsley.
Bogey (n.) An evil spirit [syn: bogey, bogy, bogie].
Bogey (n.) (Golf) A score of one stroke over par on a hole.
Bogey (n.) An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft [syn: bogy, bogie, bogey].
Bogey (v.) To shoot in one stroke over par.
Bogeyman (n.) (pl. Bogeymen) 魔鬼 [捉小孩的鬼怪] A goblin; a bugbear; a {bogey[1]}. This is the form used by parents to frighten children; as, if you don't eat your vegetables, the bogeyman will get you.
Syn: bogey.
Boogeyman (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc. "Go to sleep or the Boogeyman will get you."
Syn: Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow; booger; bugaboo; bugbear.
Bogeyman (n.) An imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn: {bogeyman}, {bugbear}, {bugaboo}, {boogeyman}, {booger}].
Boggard (n.) A bogey. [Local, Eng.]
Boggled (imp. & p. p.) of Boggle.
Boggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boggle.
Boggle (v. i.) To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. -- Glanvill.
Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. -- Barrow.
Boggle (v. i.) To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
Boggle (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to dissemble. -- Howell.
Syn: To doubt; hesitate; shrink; stickle; demur.
Boggle (v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [Local, U. S.]
Bogle (n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear. [Written also boggle.]
Boggle (v.) Startle with amazement or fear.
Boggle (v.) Hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear.
Boggle (v.) Overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn: flabbergast, boggle, bowl over].
Boggler (n.) One who boggles.
Bogglish (a.) Doubtful; skittish. [Obs.]
Boggy (a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
Boggy (a.) (Of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged].
Bogie (n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
Bogie (n.) An evil spirit [syn: bogey, bogy, bogie].
Bogie (n.) An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft [syn: bogy, bogie, bogey].
Bogle (n.) A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear. [Written also boggle.]
Bogsucker (n.) (Zool.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
Bogtrotter (n.) One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. -- Halliwell.
Bogtrotting (a.) Living among bogs.
Boce (n.) (Zool.) A European fish ({Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.
Boce (n.) (Zool.) A European fish ({Box vulgaris), having a compressed body and bright colors; -- called also box, and bogue.
Bogue (v. i.) (Naut.) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.
Bogue (n.) (Zool.) The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.
Bogue, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 590
Housing Units (2000): 259
Land area (2000): 2.688387 sq. miles (6.962891 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.219302 sq. miles (0.567989 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.907689 sq. miles (7.530880 sq. km)
FIPS code: 06740
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 34.699107 N, 77.036768 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bogue, NC
Bogue
Bogue, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 179
Housing Units (2000): 88
Land area (2000): 0.261297 sq. miles (0.676756 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.261297 sq. miles (0.676756 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07825
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.359648 N, 99.688282 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67625
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bogue, KS
Bogue
Bogus (a.) 假的，偽造的 Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]
Bogus (n.) A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Bogus (a.) Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastard].
Bogus (a.) Non-functional. ?Your patches are bogus.?
Bogus (a.) Useless. ?OPCON is a bogus program.?
Bogus (a.) False. ?Your arguments are bogus.?
Bogus (a.) Incorrect. ?That algorithm is bogus.?
Bogus (a.) Unbelievable. ?You claim to have solved the halting problem for Turing Machines? That's totally bogus.?
Bogus (a.) Silly. ?Stop writing those bogus sagas.?
Astrology is bogus. So is a bolt that is obviously about to break. So is someone who makes blatantly false claims to have solved a scientific problem. (This word seems to have some, but not all, of the connotations of random ? mostly the negative ones.)
It is claimed that bogus was originally used in the hackish sense at Princeton in the late 1960s. It was spread to CMU and Yale by Michael Shamos, a migratory Princeton alumnus. A glossary of bogus words was compiled at Yale when the word was first popularized there about 1975-76.
These coinages spread into hackerdom from CMU and MIT. Most of them remained wordplay objects rather than actual vocabulary items or live metaphors. Examples: amboguous (having multiple bogus interpretations); bogotissimo (in a gloriously bogus manner); bogotophile (one who is pathologically fascinated by the bogus); paleobogology (the study of primeval bogosity).
Some bogowords, however, obtained sufficient live currency to be listed elsewhere in this lexicon; see bogometer, bogon, bogotify, and { quantum bogodynamics and the related but unlisted Dr. Fred Mbogo.
By the early 1980s ?bogus? was also current in something like hacker usage sense in West Coast teen slang, and it had gone mainstream by 1985. A correspondent from Cambridge reports, by contrast, that these uses of bogus grate on British nerves; in Britain the word means, rather specifically, ?counterfeit?, as in ?a bogus 10-pound note?. According to Merriam-Webster, the word dates back to 1825 and originally referred to a counterfeiting machine.
Bogwood (n.) The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.
Bogey (n.; pl. Bogeys.) [Also bogie and bogy, plural bogies.] A goblin; a bugbear.
Syn: bogeyman.
I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. -- Wm. Black.
Bogey (n.; pl. Bogeys.) (Golf) A score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly, the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- it was said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard score is called par.
Bogey (n.; pl. Bogeys.) (Mil.) An unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.
Bogies (n. pl. ) of Bogy.
Bogy (n.) A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. "Death's heads and bogies." -- J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.]
There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. -- C. Kingsley.
Bogy (n.) An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft [syn: bogy, bogie, bogey].
Bogy (n.) An evil spirit [syn: bogey, bogy, bogie]
Bohea (n.) Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.
Note: The name was formerly applied to superior kinds of black tea, or to black tea in general.
Bohemia (n.) A country of central Europe.
Bohemia (n.) Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3.
She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. -- Compton Reade.
Bohemia (n.) A historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic.
Bohemia (n.) A group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style.
Bohemia, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 9871
Housing Units (2000): 3387
Land area (2000): 8.725651 sq. miles (22.599332 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.032120 sq. miles (0.083190 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.757771 sq. miles (22.682522 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07157
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 40.770042 N, 73.113760 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 11716
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Bohemian (a.) Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.
Bohemian (n.) Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy. [Modern]
Hers was a pleasant Bohemian life till she was five and thirty. -- Blackw. Mag.
Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays. -- W. Black.
Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zool.), A small bird of Europe and America ({Ampelis garrulus); the waxwing.
Bohemian glass, A variety of hard glass of fine quality, made in Bohemia. It is of variable composition, containing usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often remarkable for beauty of color.
Bohemian (n.) A native of Bohemia.
Bohemian (n.) The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.
Bohemian (n.) A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals. [Modern]
Note: In this sense from the French boh['e]mien, a gypsy; also, a person of irregular habits.
She was of a wild, roving nature, inherited from father and mother, who were both Bohemians by taste and circumstances. -- Thackeray.
Bohemian (a.) Of or relating to Bohemia or its language or people.
Bohemian (a.) Unconventional in especially appearance and behavior; "a bohemian life style".
Bohemian (n.) A member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America) [syn: Gypsy, Gipsy, Romany, Rommany, Romani, Roma, Bohemian].
Bohemian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Bohemia in the Czech Republic.
Bohemian (n.) A nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life.
Bohemianism (n.) The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian. [Modern]
Bohemianism (n.) Conduct characteristic of a bohemian.
Compare: Upas
Upas, (n.) (Bot.) A tree ({Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
Upas, (n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is derived from the upas tree ({Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant ({Strychnos Tieute).
Bohun upas () See Upas.