Boggle vs. Goggle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Boggle and Goggle
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Boggle
Boggle is a word game invented by Allan Turoff and originally distributed by Parker Brothers. The game is played using a plastic grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters.
Goggle
To stare with wide and bulging eyes.
Boggle
To hesitate as if in fear or doubt.
Goggle
To roll or bulge. Used of the eyes.
Boggle
To shy away or be overcome with fright or astonishment
"The mind now boggling at all the numbers on the table, both sides agreed to a recess of an hour" (Henry A. Kissinger).
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Goggle
To roll or bulge (the eyes).
Boggle
To act ineptly or inefficiently; bungle.
Goggle
A stare or leer.
Boggle
To cause to be overcome, as with fright or astonishment.
Goggle
GogglesA pair of tight-fitting eyeglasses, often tinted or having side shields, worn to protect the eyes from hazards such as wind, glare, water, or flying debris.
Boggle
To botch; bungle.
Goggle
To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
Boggle
Either literally or figuratively to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle.
The dogs went on, but the horse boggled at the sudden appearance of the strange beast.
The horror of the deed and its consequences boggle the imagination.
Goggle
To roll the eyes.
Boggle
(intransitive) To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.
He boggled at the surprising news.
The mind boggles.
Goggle
A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.
Come and have a goggle at Fauzia’s new car!
Boggle
(transitive) 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.
Goggle
(in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.
Boggle
To embarrass with difficulties; to palter or equivocate; to bungle or botch.
Goggle
To roll the eyes; to stare.
And wink and goggle like an owl.
Boggle
To dissemble; to play fast and loose (with someone or something).
Goggle
Full and rolling, or staring; - said of the eyes.
The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes.
Boggle
To wiggle the eyes as a result of bruxing.
Goggle
A strained or affected rolling of the eye.
Boggle
(dated) A scruple or objection.
Goggle
A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.
Boggle
(dated) A bungle; a botched situation.
Goggle
Look with amazement; look stupidly
Boggle
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.
Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose.
Boggle
To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
Boggle
To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
Boggle
To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
Boggle
Startle with amazement or fear
Boggle
Hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear
Boggle
Overcome with amazement;
This boggles the mind!
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