• adj. 假的；偽造的
• n. 偽幣

詞源不確定。通常認為來自bogey, 鬼怪，形容其突然出現。

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.

他說這些數字都是捏造的，完全不準確。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Police have been hampered by Mr Urquhart's use of bogus names.

厄克特先生使用了假名，警方的調查因此受阻。

來自柯林斯例句

3. bogus claims of injury by workers

工人們虛報受傷情況索賠

來自《權威詞典》

4. She was fooled by his bogus identity card.

她被他的假身份證騙了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The telegram turned out to have been bogus.

電報原來是假的.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》