Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A specter, goblin, or bogy, especially one supposed to haunt a particular spot.
- noun Any object, real or imaginary, at which a horse shies.
- noun Figuratively, a bug-bear; a thing of fear.
- noun The hellgrammite.
- noun A privy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Local, Eng. A bogey.
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- noun archaic A
ghost orgoblin .
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Examples
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It was an awful-looking thing, and no doubt did duty for the "boggard" of the neighbourhood.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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It went on varry weel for th 'furst wick, but towards th' end o'th 'second they'd rayther ha' seen a boggard walk into th 'haase nor another piece o' that cauf walk on to th 'table.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"Awst nooan be freetened o 'thee if tha wor a boggard," shoo sed, "but has ta getten one?"
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Thear's a boggard i 'th' haase as sewer as aw'm here! '
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
vanishedone commented on the word boggard
An alternative form of boggart, as you'd expect, but according to the O.E.D. also an old (c. 16th & 17th Century) term for a privy.
January 12, 2009