bogusmaker

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bogusmaker (plural bogusmakers)

  1. Alternative spelling of bogus-maker
    • 1846 January 2, William Clayton (quoting Brigham Young), edited by George Dempster Smith, An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton, published 1991, page 252:
      From [James K.] Polk, down to the nastiest Bogusmaker, or whiskey seller, it was resolved to break up the Mormons this fall.
    • 1849 December 6, Addison Pratt, “[Diary]”, in LeRoy R. Hafen, Ann W. Hafen, editors, Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles [], published 1954, page 100:
      There was an old man by the name of Forsket he was said to be a celebrated bogusmaker and had been in partnership with three different men that had been hanged for it, but he had escaped.
    • 1968, Robert B. Day, They Made Mormon History[1], page 287:
      In Nauvoo the cry against the saints had been the claim that they sheltered counterfeiters and bogusmakers.