bogus

• adj.
• n. 偽札

語源は不明。突然現れる幽霊を表す「bogey」に由来すると考えられることが多い。

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.

彼はこれらの数字はすべて捏造であり、全く正確ではないと言った。

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

エクト氏は偽名を使用しており、警察の捜査は阻まれている。

3. bogus claims of injury by workers

労働者らが負傷状況を水増しして請求した

4.She was fooled by his bogus identity card.

彼女は彼の偽身分証明書にだまされた。

5.The telegram turned out to have been bogus .

電報は偽物だった。