Meaning
2 senses(US, dialectal, uncountable)A liquor made of rum and molasses.
(US, archaic, dialectal, uncountable)Counterfeit money.
Examples
3 sentencesThis is completely bogus.
deDas ist kompletter Humbug. — Yorwba
The bonus material was actually bogus.
Sami opened a bank account with a bogus Egyptian ID.
Origin
First attested as an underworld term for an apparatus for creating counterfeit coins, thenFirst attested as an underworld term for an apparatus for creating counterfeit coins, then the coins themselves. Later, the word was applied to anything of poor quality. The newest use to mean useless is probably from the slang of computer hackers.
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Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.