bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n.
1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something
is bogus. Bogosity is measured with a
bogometer; in a seminar, when a
speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and
say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just
pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so
outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the
bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also
say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of
bogosity is the microLenat. 2.
The potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also
bogon flux, bogon filter, bogus.
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bogotify /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt.
To make or become bogus. A program that has been changed so
many times as to become completely disorganized has become
bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads
on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified and you had better
not use it any more. This coinage led to the notional
`autobogotiphobia' defined as `the fear of becoming bogotified';
but is not clear that the latter has ever been `live' jargon
rather than a self-conscious joke in jargon about jargon. See
also bogosity, bogus.
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bogue out /bohg owt/ vi.
To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly. "His talk was
relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; then
he bogued out and did nothing but flame afterwards." See also bogosity, bogus.