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 Definitions for bogus: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Bogus \Bo"gus\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied
to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
[Colloq. U. S.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Bogus \Bo"gus\, n.
A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] --Bartlett.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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bogus
adj : fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: fake, phony,
phoney, bastard]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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60 Moby Thesaurus words for "bogus":
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
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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bogus adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus." 2. Useless.
"OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your arguments are bogus." 4.
Incorrect. "That algorithm is bogus." 5. Unbelievable. "You claim to
have solved the halting problem for Turing Machines? That's totally
bogus." 6. Silly. "Stop writing those bogus sagas."
Astrology is bogus. So is a bolt that is obviously about to break. So
is someone who makes blatantly false claims to have solved a scientific
problem. (This word seems to have some, but not all, of the connotations
of random -- mostly the negative ones.)
It is claimed that `bogus' was originally used in the hackish sense at
Princeton in the late 1960s. It was spread to CMU and Yale by Michael
Shamos, a migratory Princeton alumnus. A glossary of bogus words was
compiled at Yale when the word was first popularized there about
1975-76. These coinages spread into hackerdom from CMU and MIT. Most of
them remained wordplay objects rather than actual vocabulary items or
live metaphors. Examples: `amboguous' (having multiple bogus
interpretations); `bogotissimo' (in a gloriously bogus manner);
`bogotophile' (one who is pathologically fascinated by the bogus);
`paleobogology' (the study of primeval bogosity).
Some bogowords, however, obtained sufficient live currency to be
listed elsewhere in this lexicon; see bogometer, bogon, bogotify,
and quantum bogodynamics and the related but unlisted {Dr. Fred
Mbogo}.
By the early 1980s `bogus' was also current in something like hacker
usage sense in West Coast teen slang, and it had gone mainstream by
1985. A correspondent from Cambridge reports, by contrast, that these
uses of `bogus' grate on British nerves; in Britain the word means,
rather specifically, `counterfeit', as in "a bogus 10-pound note".
According to Merriam-Webster, the word dates back to 1825 and originally
referred to a counterfeiting machine.
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