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English
Etymology
From boggle + -some.
Adjective
bogglesome (comparative more bogglesome, superlative most bogglesome)
- Characterised or marked by boggling; mind-boggling.
1969?, “”, in Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, volume 78, number 4, page 171:Doing it by touch alone is a bogglesome undertaking.
1995 July 29, John Walsh, “INTERVIEW; She's a friend of Norman Mailer and is the richest Englishwoman after the Queen. Her name is Barbara Taylor Bradford. John Walsh meets a woman of substance. Picture by Dillon Bryden”, in The Independent, page 3:The combination of huge world sales, bogglesome advances (a three-book deal for pounds 20m was negotiated with HarperCollins in 1992; it's almost time for a new one) and television rights to mini-series (the personal forte of her gravelly, Germanic husband Bob) brings wads of moolah in every post.
2008 January 19, Caitlin Moran, “School for scandal”, in The Times, page 4:Desperate to razz the whole thing up, Summerhill descends into "imagineering", culminating in the bogglesome scene in which the renowned human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robinson, QC, dresses up as Peter Pan, and attacks Blunkett's lawyer with a cutlass.