Meaning of BOGUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'bowgus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] fraudulent; having a misleading appearance |
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| | Synonyms: | | bastard, counterfeit, fake, imitative, phoney, phony |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Bo"gus\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied
to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
[Colloq. U. S.]
\Bo"gus\, n.
A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] --Bartlett.
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| | Related Terms: | | affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged, fraudulent, garbled, illegitimate, imitation, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped |
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