a person who boggles, or a thing which causes one to boggle
boggler in American English
(ˈbɑɡlər)
noun
informal
something, as an amazing fact, puzzle, or riddle, that astounds or defeats
The puzzle was a real boggler
Word origin
[1600–10; boggle1 + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1600–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: adaptation, cadet, criticism, dolly, skid-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'boggler' in a sentence
boggler
It becomes a real mind-boggler and not one for the nonlateral thinker.
The Sun (2010)
This is a notorious contradiction of natural history and it is great fun to drop into conversation as a mind-boggler.