boggle🔊

Either literally or figuratively to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle.

To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused.

To confuse or mystify; overwhelm.

(US, dialect) To embarrass with difficulties; to palter or equivocate; to bungle or botch.

(obsolete) To dissemble; to play fast and loose (with someone or something).

(of a rat) To wiggle the eyes as a result of bruxing.

(dated) A scruple or objection.

(dated) A bungle; a botched situation.