[f. prec. vb.]
1. The act of boggling as a horse. † To take boggle: to shy with fright, to take alarm.
1660. G. Fleming, Stemma Sacr., 30. They had taken boggle at some State overtures.
1824. Craven Dial., 22. His skaddle tit, glentin its ee up at me, took boggle, maad a girt flounder, an ran back.
2. Demur, scruple, objection, difficulty, fuss; chiefly in to make boggle. Obs. or arch.
1667. Pepys, Diary (1879), IV. 459. The Dutch do make a further bogle with us about two or three things.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat., I. 140. The plain man makes no boggle at the ideas of creation, annihilation, or vacuity.
3. A bungle. Boggle-de-botch, boggledy botch (colloq.): a complete bungle, a ‘mess.’ See BOTCH v. and sb.
1834. Mar. Edgeworth, Helen, xxvi. A fine boggle-de-botch I have made of it.
1841. Gresley, C. Lever, 21. What a boggle he did make of it to be sure.
1862. Sat. Rev., XIII. 121. Jones of the 43rd, who got into that boggle in Armenia.
