Meaning of boggard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bogey: a ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature, especially a small local spirit haunting gloomy places or the scenes of violence.
   UK, dialectal
2. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   obsolete
3. A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
   figuratively
4. Any real or imagined thing which prompts a horse to boggle (take fright).
   obsolete

Examples

“A Boggarde, spectrum.”

“He thinks every bush a boggard, i.e. a bugbear or phantasm.”

“Boggle, Boggart, a fearful object, a hobgoblin.”

“Nor be such buggarddes to the poor, yff they may not beare the bagge alone.”

“Hell is but a boggarde to scarre children.”

“Siege, jacques, bogard, or draught, latrina.”

“He [Satan] thought it wisdome to keep the land [of Ireland] for a Boggards for his unclean spirits.”

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