Definitions for Bogus
ˈboʊ gəsbo·gus

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastardadjective

   fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. bogusadjective

   Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.

   bogus crimes

2. bogusadjective

   Undesirable or harmful.

3. bogusadjective

   Incorrect, useless, or broken.

4. bogusadjective

   Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).

5. bogusadjective

   Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.

   bogus laws

6. Etymology: First attested from 1797, as underworld term for counterfeit coins. Meaning of the machine (known as a bogus press) was first attested 1828. Sense of phony paper money as well as a general adjective applied to anything, being less valuable than it first appeared was first attested 1848. Later, the word was applied to anything of poor quality. The current use to mean useless is probably from the slang of computer hackers.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bogus

   Bogus refers to something that is fake, fraudulent, or not genuine. It is typically used to describe something that is intended to deceive or trick others.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. Bogusadjective

   spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit

2. Bogusnoun

   a liquor made of rum and molasses

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bogus

   bō′gus, adj. counterfeit, spurious. [An American cant word, of very doubtful origin—it may possibly be ult. related to Bogy.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. bogus

   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.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bogusadjective

   bogus paper, paper made of recycled newspaper etc, used for packing and also by artists.

   bogus paper is available in rolls or sheets.

   
   

   Submitted by deepclay on November 5, 2021  

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bogus

   In reporting a trial at law The Boston Courier in 1857 gave the following authoritative origin:--“The word Bogus is a corruption of the name of one Borghese, a very corrupt individual, who twenty years ago or more did a tremendous business in the way of supplying the great west, and portions of the south-west, with counterfeit bills and bills on fictitious banks. The western people fell into the habit of shortening the name of Borghese to that of Bogus, and his bills, as well as all others of like character, were universally styled by them ‘bogus currency.’” So that the word is really American.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BOGUS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bogus is ranked #25332 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bogus surname appeared 977 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bogus.
   
   79% or 772 total occurrences were White.
   16.9% or 166 total occurrences were Black.
   1.9% or 19 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.1% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.

How to pronounce Bogus?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Bogus in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Bogus in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Bogus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Bogus in a Sentence

1. Sudhir Choubey:

   Black fungus, white fungus, yellow fungus , blue fungus and so on. Keep inventing bogus fungus to cheat people.

2. Justin Sherman:

   This all underscores that the notion that platforms are neutral is absolutely bogus, doing nothing is still a decision, and platforms have to make judgment calls about what they want to allow on their platforms.

3. Eddie T. Johnson:

   Bogus police reports cause real harm, i am offended by what's happened, and I'm also angry.

4. James Mitchell:

   The suggestion that the men and women of the CIA who put their lives on the line after 9/11 lied to the Senate, lied to the President and used bogus intelligence for some nefarious reason that's unknown, people gave their lives to protect the American people. And the last thing the Democrats want to do as they leave office is to smear their memory. It's despicable.

5. Bob Keefe:

   It's going to be harder for red states to say clean energy jobs are bogus and that it's something for California when it's something that's happening in their backyards.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Bogus
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bogus
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Bogus
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Bogus
6. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Bogus
7. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=Bogus
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html