boggling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of boggle

comparative more boggling · superlative most boggling

1. Stupefying; mind-boggling.

   The no answer has to do with the general perspective. As Rick wrote from Africa, “The whole idea is so boggling' and awesome that it is almost too much to get nervous about. Our worry quotas don’t include things like “Today’ show appearances.”

   1984, Joan Scobey, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, St. Martin’s/Marek, page 101

plural bogglings

1. The condition of being bewildered or mystified.

   Imagine all of Europe speaking Chinese. To even begin to imagine it brings on bogglings of the mind and other parts of the body.

   2011, Oona Frawley, Memory Ireland: Volume 1: History and Modernity, page 227