boggling
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]boggling
- present participle and gerund of boggle
Adjective
[edit]boggling (comparative more boggling, superlative most boggling)
- Stupefying; mind-boggling.
- 1984, Joan Scobey, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, St. Martin’s/Marek, page 101:
- The no answer has to do with the general perspective. As Rick wrote from Africa, “The whole idea is so boggling' and awesome that it is almost too much to get nervous about. Our worry quotas don’t include things like “Today’ show appearances.”
Noun
[edit]boggling (plural bogglings)
- The condition of being bewildered or mystified.
- 2011, Oona Frawley, Memory Ireland: Volume 1: History and Modernity, page 227:
- Imagine all of Europe speaking Chinese. To even begin to imagine it brings on bogglings of the mind and other parts of the body.