boggle
verb [intransitive] (informal)Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they boggle | |
| he / she / it boggles | |
| past simple boggled | |
| past participle boggled | |
| -ing form boggling |
- boggle (at something)
to be slow to do or accept something because you are surprised or shocked by it （因吃惊而）不知所措，犹豫不决 Oxford Collocations DictionaryBoggle is used with these nouns as the object:- mind
Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably of dialect origin and related to bogle, a phantom or goblin and bogey ‘thing that causes fear’.
Idioms
something boggles the mind
(also the mind boggles)
- (informal)
if something boggles the mind or the mind boggles at it, it is so unusual that people find it hard to imagine or accept 使人无法想象；使人难以接受 The vastness of space really boggles the mind. 太空之辽阔的确使人难以想象。 ‘He says he's married to his cats!’ ‘The mind boggles!’ “他说他和他的那些猫结婚了！” “难以置信！”