• adj. 假的；伪造的
• n. 伪币

词源不确定。通常认为来自bogey, 鬼怪，形容其突然出现。

bogus

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).

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.

厄克特先生使用了假名，警方的调查因此受阻。

来自柯林斯例句

3. bogus claims of injury by workers

工人们虚报受伤情况索赔

来自《权威词典》

4. She was fooled by his bogus identity card.

她被他的假身份证骗了.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The telegram turned out to have been bogus.

电报原来是假的.

来自《简明英汉词典》