boggart
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of boggard (A bogey, a ghost)
noun
A shapeshifting monster that feeds on fear.
Example Sentences
- "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?”"
- "The Boggart at length proved such a torment that the farmer and his wife resolved to quit the house and let him have it all to himself."
- "Boggle, Boggart, a fearful object, a hobgoblin."
- "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."
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Boggart
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