1838, "counterfeit money, spurious coin," American English, apparently from a slang word applied (according to some sources first in Ohio in 1827) to a counterfeiter's apparatus.
One bogus or machine impressing dies on the coin, with a number of dies, engraving tools, bank bill paper, spurious coin, &c. &c. making in all a large wagon load, was taken into possession by the attorney general of Lower Canada. [Niles' Register, Sept. 7, 1833, quoting from Concord, New Hampshire, "Statesman," Aug. 24]
Some trace this to tantrabobus, also tantrabogus, a late 18c. colloquial Vermont word for any odd-looking object, in later 19c. use "the devil," which might be connected to tantarabobs, recorded as a Devonshire name for the devil. Others trace it to the same source as bogey (n.1).
中文解释
1. bog + us => 假币泛滥是我们的经济陷入泥沼。假货泛滥是我们的生活陷入泥沼。
实用例句
1. He said these figures were bogus and totally inaccurate.
他说这些数字都是捏造的，完全不准确。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Police have been hampered by Mr Urquhart's use of bogus names.
