Synonyms for bogus
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : boh-guhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈboʊ gəs |
Top 10 synonyms for bogus Other synonyms for the word bogus
Définition of bogus
Origin :- 1838, "counterfeit money, spurious coin," American English, apparently from a slang word applied (according to some sources first in Ohio in 1827) to a counterfeiter's apparatus.
- One bogus or machine impressing dies on the coin, with a number of dies, engraving tools, bank bill paper, spurious coin, &c. &c. making in all a large wagon load, was taken into possession by the attorney general of Lower Canada. [Niles' Register, Sept. 7, 1833, quoting from Concord, New Hampshire, "Statesman," Aug. 24]
- Some trace this to tantrabobus, also tantrabogus, a late 18c. colloquial Vermont word for any odd-looking object, in later 19c. use "the devil," which might be connected to tantarabobs, recorded as a Devonshire name for the devil. Others trace it to the same source as bogey (n.1).
- adj counterfeit
- Save for subsiding bubbles, and the bogus water, there was nothing there.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- In all such cases the heraldry should be true, and not of the "bogus" kind.
- Extract from : « Wood-Carving » by George Jack
- She must explain to me how that bogus money came into her possession.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Bravery » by Burt L. Standish
- By some fearful mischance I dropped a real despatch and not the bogus one.
- Extract from : « The Lost Despatch » by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
- Wall, I must say I like yer looks a heap better nor I did the bogus one!
- Extract from : « Dave Porter in the Gold Fields » by Edward Stratemeyer
- It follows that if anything is base and bogus it is always labeled "American."
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- The fact is, I was prepared for the visit, and had filled the wallet with bogus bills.
- Extract from : « The Young Adventurer » by Horatio Alger
- Had the honest tradesman ever sold his grandfather a bogus watch?
- Extract from : « Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive » by Alf Burnett
- He showed them the bogus bullet, and explained to them how it was made.
- Extract from : « Three Boys in the Wild North Land » by Egerton Ryerson Young
- Do you mean that we are drinking a bogus Veuve-Cliquot over there?
- Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Antonyms for bogus
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