boggard
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bogey: a ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature, especially a small local spirit haunting gloomy places or the scenes of violence.
British usage
noun
A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
Example Sentences
- "A Boggarde, spectrum."
- "He thinks every bush a boggard, i.e. a bugbear or phantasm."
- "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."
Etymology
Uncertain; occurring since 16th century in northern and north midlands British dialects; etymologically related to boggle, bogle, and obsolete bog (“a bugbear”); the first element perhaps ultimately a variant of bug (“goblin; terrifying thing; etc.”), and thus equivalent to bog + -ard (“augmentative suffix”).
Usage
Inflected Forms
boggards (plural)
boggart (alternative)
buggard (alternative, obsolete)
baggard (alternative, obsolete)
bogard (alternative)
boggards (alternative)