bogle
See also: Bogle
English
Alternative forms
- boggle
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly cognate with bug or from Welsh bwgwly 'to terrify'.[1]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɒɡ.l̩/
Noun
bogle (plural bogles)
- A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
- (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.
Derived terms
- potato-bogle
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bogle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
References
- The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: A-E
- Charles P. G. Scott, 'Bogus and His Crew', Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 42 (1911), pp. 157-174.
Anagrams
- Belgo-, Globe, Gobel, Goble, globe