bogus
pronunciation
How to pronounce bogus in British English:
UK [ˈbəʊgəs]
How to pronounce bogus in American English:
US [ˈboʊgəs]
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- Adjective:
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Word Origin
- 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. 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).
Example
- 1. This is the age of the bogus survey .
- 2. Russia and venezuela are bogus democracies .
- 3. Psychoanalysis is a bogus science because its practitioners do not do scientific research .
- 4. Bogus quantification attempts to compress complex problems and analyses into single observations .
- 5. It probably does not matter much that the bogus survey is used to generate spurious news .