Meaning of boggart | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of boggard (A bogey, a ghost)
   alt-of, alternative
2. A shapeshifting monster that feeds on fear.

Examples

“OH! Maeſter—ſtrange things late I've ſeen— / And oft has boggart-haunted been ! / I'm ſure I's falt when ſtory's-tauld, / 'Till blude run⟳ aw' through veins ſo cauld !”

““[…]Are na ye shamed, ye weak gawly, that ye darena stir⟳ ower the threshold for fear of a boggart?””

“Hoggart's Leap⟳ is a weird name⟳, suggesting to the uninitiated some connection with a local tradition and a boggart or a barguest of Swaledale renown ; but I believe⟳ that Hoggart is really a family name⟳, there being Hoggarth's Farm about two miles further up the Swale.”

“[…]but when it came to a question⟳ of standing up against the boggart of Arden—a thing, in the popular imagination, composed of neither flesh, blood, nor bones—even a physical giant had qualms and misgivings, and so had Joseph Wand.”

“"A boogeyman," I said. "Sometimes known as a boggle or a boggart. It's a weak form⟳ of phobophage - a fear-eater, mostly insubstantial."”

“I pushed open⟳ the lid, half-expecting a Boggart to burst⟳ out of the trunk, taking the form⟳ of my worst nightmare.”

“The boggart has brought you here because it hopes to feed⟳ off you like⟳ it has been trying to feed⟳ off me.”

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