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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bogus
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a bogus driver's license
▪ The child was taken away from her parents by a bogus social worker.
▪ The government has announced tough new measures to deal with bogus asylum-seekers.
▪ There has been a spate of incidents where bogus officials have called on the homes of elderly people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Can it indeed be bogus and worthless poetry that has obsessed critical reviewers for nearly twenty years?
▪ It has also sent the West numerous doubtful and bogus defectors to muddy the waters.
▪ Just like Harry Sherman, the night of the attack by the bogus nurse, the thought occurred to him.
▪ Many computer messages attacking the team and its owner were sent by people using bogus identities, Stesch said.
▪ The right hon. Gentleman can not put a cost on his compassion, for it is bogus.
▪ Their offices are bogus, their elevation self-proclaimed.
▪ Tommy's has had to fend off many bogus Tommy-wannabes over the years.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bogus

Bogus \Bo"gus\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

Bogus

Bogus \Bo"gus\, n. A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.]
--Bartlett.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bogus

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.\n\nOne 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]

\nSome 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).
Wiktionary
bogus

a. counterfeit or fake; not genuine. n. (context US dialect English) A liquor made of rum and molasses.

WordNet
bogus

adj. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: fake, phony, phoney, bastard]

Wikipedia
Bogus

Bogus may refer to:

  • Bogus (film), a 1996 film starring Whoopi Goldberg
  • Bogus (game), alternative name of the dice game Dice 10000
  • Bogus Basin mountain resort in Idaho
  • Mr. Bogus, a 1992 animation
Bogus (film)

Bogus is a 1996 American fantasy film directed by Norman Jewison, written by Alvin Sargent, and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, and Haley Joel Osment. It features magic tricks with magician Whit Haydn as consultant. It did poorly at the box office and Goldberg was nominated for a Razzie Award for her performance. It was filmed in Canada and New Jersey.

Usage examples of "bogus".

But soon or late--and probably disconcertingly soon--the great mass of sensible and agnostic women will turn upon them and depose them, and thereafter the woman vote will be no longer at the disposal of bogus Great Thinkers and messiahs.

The consultant -Colville - had clearly taken Paul completely at face value, and presumably a man of his experience and qualifications would have been able to spot a bogus amnesiac with far more facility than she herself would.

The story was bogus, insisted a little-known blogger named LisaS posting on the Right Voices site.

Negro teacher and educator might as well admit the fact of their incompetency and with the admission bend themselves with renewed energy to hard study, laying aside all bogus degrees and meaningless titles, and acknowledge the fact that they are yet intellectual pigmies.

Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet, and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies, but with that experience, the compass of the self can be set.

Lord of the Flies crew thought Gio was faking the apology as much as the Doormat probably thought my part in it was bogus.

A boy with none of the glaring faults of a lout like Goofus, a boy with none of the bogus suburban qualities of Gallant.

So the scene between the pair of them, the licensee of the place rumoured to be or have been Fitzharris, the famous invincible, and the other, obviously bogus, reminded him forcibly as being on all fours with the confidence trick, supposing, that is, it was prearranged as the lookeron, a student of the human soul if anything, the others seeing least of the game.

Denise might have had a few zippy gadgets, but her real advantage over us was how willing people were to sign up to her bogus resistance movement.

Sagebrush Smith and the bogus Sally Surett returned to the hotel room, Everett Everett Barr greeted them heartily.

The one thing her bosses stressed after teaching her be a bogus masseuse was that you get your violation of law without ever touching it.

Over the last twenty years, the worldwide net had come to be a midden of bogus sites and recursive fraudulence.

Carol Marcus saw of the fake Jim and David on the equally bogus Regula I space station, the more she hated them.

It was obvious that The Terrine was staked out, but as the bogus milkman moved down the street I wondered why he should have told me so much, unless a course of action had already been prepared for me.

The purpose of my exercise was to find out the mechanics of how gold is moved and traded, and secondly to test bogus documents which had been prepared for me by ex-intelligence friends of mine who specialized in this kind of thing.