boglet

boglet

English

Etymology 1

bog +‎ -let

Noun

boglet (plural boglets)

1. A small patch of boggy ground.
   • 1919, Israel Zangwill, Jinny the Carrier:

     The practical Martha was in fact advancing with an improvised leaping-pole that had already carried her neatly over the brook and would obviously bring Bundock over the boglet.

Etymology 2

From Scots

Noun

boglet (plural boglets)

1. A kind of supernatural being.
   • 2011, Rob Thurman, Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel

     Goodfellow and the vampire had dropped us off in the limo at the park's south entrance. […] I was again smacking the claws of the boglet above me. […] They ate muggers and joggers. […] "Don't make me shoot off the end of your tail."

Anagrams

• goblet

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Scots

Etymology

Related to bogle

Noun

boglet (plural boglets)

1. A boglet, a bogle, a ghost or supernatural being.
   • 1991, Tocher, issues 40-43, page 201:

     "Bless us aa," said Robbie, "but he's no a very pleasant lookin corpse. Oh, but he's a boglet." An 'e man says, "Aye, we'll probably make the try an brak he's bones tae get him in because he's died sittin up [in] convulsion."