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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