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English
Etymology
From boggling + -ly.
Adverb
bogglingly (comparative more bogglingly, superlative most bogglingly)
- In a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree.
1992, Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar, JFK: The Book of the Film, published 2006, →ISBN, page 220:It was bogglingly complex, with 212 speaking parts, more than 1000 camera setups, 95 scenes, 15 separate film stocks, and endless intercuts and flashbacks -- "everything but footnotes," Stone joked.
- While boggling; with an amazed expression.
1863 December 26, “Court-Martial”, in All The Year Round, page 422:The prisoner rises with a bit of paper in his hand, and slowly and bogglingly reads from it what has been written down for him to say, and what is delivered thus, reads to the public in the newspaper report like shrewd spontaneous suggestions.
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