bogusmaker

plural bogusmakers

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of bogus-maker.

   In Nauvoo the cry against the saints had been the claim that they sheltered counterfeiters and bogusmakers.

   1968, Robert B. Day, They Made Mormon History, page 287

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   From [James K.] Polk, down to the nastiest Bogusmaker, or whiskey seller, it was resolved to break up the Mormons this fall.

   1846 January 2, William Clayton (quoting Brigham Young), edited by George Dempster Smith, An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton, published 1991, page 252

   There was an old man by the name of Forsket he was said to be a celebrated bogusmaker and had been in partnership with three different men that had been hanged for it, but he had escaped.

   1849 December 6, Addison Pratt, “[Diary]”, in LeRoy R. Hafen, Ann W. Hafen, editors, Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles […], published 1954, page 100