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This new language often displays a youthfully exuberant sense of the absurd. Thus "moby," meaning large, is said to derive from Melville's Moby Dick, though some say from Moby Pickle. And "bogus," which used to be squealed by Evelyn Waugh debutantes, has now flowered into bogosity, and even into autobogophobia, a fear of becoming bogotified...
President Reagan's swipe at the nuclear-freeze movement is bogus. This group is as much the product of Soviet agents as the Polish Solidarity union is the result of American provocateurs...
DeVos and Van Andel say the Canadians approved the company's system for handling valuations back in 1965, but the Canadians are arguing that Amway never stuck to that plan at all. Further, they claim that Amway fabricated bogus invoices to fake a low level of wholesale prices. After the customs people filed civil charges against the company, a criminal investigation leading to the indictments was begun by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
...brisk, earnest manner of an Army colonel who has just inspected his regiment. (Primo means the same thing.) The movie E. T. has contributed penis breath, an aggressively weird phrase in perfect harmony with the aggressively weird psyche of the eight-year-old. In Minnesota, they say, for weird. Bogus is an ordinary, though slightly out-of-the-way word that has been recommissioned as youth slang that means fraudulent or simply second-rate or silly. Bogus is a different shading of lame. Something that is easy is cinchy. Overexcited? One is blowing a hype...
...Bogus People...