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Definition: BOGLE |
BOGLENoun1. A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear. |
Date "BOGLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Bogle \Bo"gle\, noun. [Scottish and North English bogle, bogill, bugill, specter; as verb, to terrify, from Welsh bwgwl threatening, fear, bwg, bwgan, specter, hobgoblin. Compare to Bug.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Demon | Vampire, ghoul; afreet, barghest, Loki; ogre, ogress; gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia; bogie, bogeyman, bogle; nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin; Puck, Robin Goodfellow; leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BOGLE |
| Specialty definitions using "BOGLE": Bogle Swindle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BOGLE": Bogy. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Nutritionist Margret Bogle, director of the Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative gets a snack from one of the children she talked to about nutrition. Credit: USDA. |  | At a farm in Grady, Arkansas, nutritionist Margaret Bogle, director of the Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative, talks about the importance of eating fresh vegetables with students from the Child Development Center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Ken Hammond.. |
 | Rev. George Campbell, D.D. / J. Bogle. W. Holl. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "BOGLE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "BOGLE" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 71.43% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BOGLE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bogle | Last name | 2,000 | 5,316 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bogle | 92 | bogle merlot | 3 |
lee bogle | 35 | bogle eric lyrics | 3 |
bogle eric | 21 | bogle cap fund small | 3 |
john bogle | 16 | bogle gate | 2 |
bogle wine | 15 | bogle finley harris | 2 |
bogle winery | 13 | bogle kindred lee soul | 2 |
bogle vineyard | 12 | art bogle card lee | 2 |
bartle bogle hegarty | 11 | donald bogle | 2 |
bogle paul | 10 | bogle funds | 2 |
bogle obituary | 7 | john c bogle | 2 |
bogle jason | 7 | bogle dancehall | 2 |
bogle kaldun | 5 | lee bogle artist | 2 |
bogle jack | 4 | bob bogle | 2 |
collin bogle | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "BOGLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Lugat (basilisk, bogey, boggard, cockatrice, fright, hob, hobgoblin, spectre, turn-skin). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Призрак, Таласъм, Страшилище. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kobold (boggard, boggle, bogy, flibbertigibbet, goblin, hobgoblin, pixie, pixy, puck, sprite), gonosz szellem (afreet, afrit, boggle, cacodaemon, cacodemon, demon, evil spirit, Goblin, gremlin), Forgózsámoly (bogey, bogie). (various references) | |
Manx | scaanjoon (ghost, phantom). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oglebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fantasma (apparition, bugaboo, bugbear, eidolon, ghost, golliwog, haunt, hob, leprechaun, phantasm, phantom, shadow, spectre, spirit, spook, wraith), espectro (eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, spectre, spectrum, spirit, spook, wraith), duende (elf, elfin, hob, hobgoblin, imp, leprechaun, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite). (various references) | |
Romanian | Sperietoare (bogy, bugaboo, bugbear, fright, guy, scarecrow, the bogy man), Fantomã (apparition, chimera, fetch, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith, zombie). (various references) | |
Russian | Привидение. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sablast (ghost, specter, spook, visitant), avet (apparition, bogey, ghost, phantom, specter, spook, visitant). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Привід, Примара. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | yêu quái (bogey, bogy), ma quỷ (bogey, bogy, daemon, demon, fiend, sprite). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BOGLE": bogles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BOGLE" (pronounced bō"gul) |
| 4 | -ō" g u l | mogul, Ogle. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, angle, antifungal, bagel, bangle, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, commingle, conjugal, dangle, Dingle, disentangle, eagle, entangle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, fungal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, Spangle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, strangle, struggle, swingle, tangle, Ingle, intermingle, jangle, jiggle, jingle, juggle, jungle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, Mangel, mangle, milligal, mingle, mongol, paralegal, prodigal, rectangle, regal, shingle, single, smuggle, snuggle, tingle, toggle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wiggle, wrangle, wriggle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: globe. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-l-o" | |
-1 letter: bole, glob, lobe, loge, ogle. | |
-2 letters: beg, bel, bog, ego, gel, gob, leg, lob, log, obe, ole. | |
-3 letters: be, bo, el, go, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-l-o" | |
+1 letter: beclog, belong, boggle, bogles, bowleg, globed, globes, gobble, goblet, oblige. | |
+2 letters: beclogs, begloom, belongs, boggled, boggler, boggles, bootleg, bowlegs, englobe, globate, globose, globule, gobbled, gobbler, gobbles, goblets, ignoble, lovebug, obliged, obligee, obliger, obliges. | |
+3 letters: bargello, beglamor, beglooms, belonged, blockage, bludgeon, bogglers, bootlegs, boweling, bunghole, conglobe, elbowing, englobed, englobes, gamboled, globated, globbier, globules, gobblers, gorbelly, growable, lovebugs, obligate, obligees, obligers. | |
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