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▪ I. bogus, (n.1) a.|ˈbəʊgəs|
[A cant word of U.S., about the origin of which many guesses have been made, and ‘bogus’ derivations circumstantially given.
Dr. S. Willard, of Chicago, in a letter to the editor of this Dictionary, quotes from the Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph of July 6 and Nov. 2, 1827, the word bogus as a n. applied to an apparatus for coining false money. Mr. Eber D. Howe, who was then editor of that paper, describes in his Autobiography (1878) the discovery of such a piece of mechanism in the hands of a gang of coiners at Painesville, in May 1827; it was a mysterious-looking object, and some one in the crowd styled it a ‘bogus’, a designation adopted in the succeeding numbers of the paper. Dr. Willard considers this to have been short for tantrabogus, a word familiar to him from his childhood, and which in his father's time was commonly applied in Vermont to any ill-looking object; he points out that tantarabobs is given in Halliwell as a Devonshire word for the devil. bogus seems thus to be related to bogy1, etc.]
†1. n.
a. An apparatus for counterfeit coining. Obs.
1827Painesville Tel. (Ohio) 6 July, That he never procured the casting of a Bogus at one of our furnaces. Ibid. 2 Nov. The eight or ten boguses which have been for some time in operation.
b. bogus press, bogus machine = sense 1 a.
1844Spirit of Times (Philad.) 12 Oct. (Th.), A bogus press for making counterfeit money. 1850Frontier Guardian (ed. O. Hyde) 23 Jan. (Th.), We employed that same Bill Hickman to ferret out a bogus press and a gang of counterfeiters...A part of the bogus machine has been found.
†c. Counterfeit coin. Also Comb.
1842Life in West 297 They had attempted to pass bogus (base coin). 1844Nauvoo Neighbor 12 June (Th.), To bolster up the interests of blacklegs and bogus-makers. 1854B. Young in Jrnl. Discourses I. 270 The Magicians of Egypt..produced a very good bogus, but it was not quite the true coin.
2. adj. Counterfeit, spurious, fictitious, sham: ‘originally applied to counterfeit coin’ (Webster).
1839Mrs. Kirkland New Home xxxii. 212 The boxes..contained..half-dollars ‘principally bogus’. 1852Hughes in J. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 338 This precious house of representatives—the bogus legislature, as it was at once called. 1857Boston Daily Courier 12 June, The learned Judge took occasion to manifest his abhorrence of the use of slang phrases..by saying that he did not know the meaning of ‘bogus transactions’. 1859‘Dow, Jr.’ New Patent Sermons 216 Crocodile tears are bogus. 1866Cornh. Mag. Nov. 582 A mere juggle, or as Americans would say, a ‘bogus’ parliament. 1874M. Collins Frances III. 80 They've got some good money, as well as bogus notes. 1877R. Giffen Stock Exch. Securities 65 A bogus Company..instead of paying dividends to its Shareholders, goes into Liquidation. 1878Black Green Past. xxv. 202, I am not going to spend a penny in a bogus contest. 1892G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits & Rev. (1932) 243 Mr. Frederic Harrison deliberately talked bogus Shelleyism to the reporters. 1940N. Mitford Pigeon Pie xvi. 244, I also hoped they would show people here that the whole thing was bogus. 1942E. Waugh Put out more Flags i. §6. 68 You..haven't got any of those bogus regional connections like the Scots and Irish and Welsh.
▪ II. bogus, n.2 U.S.|ˈbəʊgəs|
[Has been conjectured to be ad. F. bagasse sugar-cane refuse; but perhaps is the same word as prec.]
‘A liquor made of rum and molasses.’ Bartlett Dict. Amer. |