Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shag-boy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English

Syllables: shag-boy
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A ghost or goblin.

Example Sentences

"Ghosts, bogies, and the supernatural generally have utterly vanished from this commonplace district before schools and newspapers. Even an old lady more than ninety years old said to us, "Fairies and shag-boys! lasses are often skeart at them, but I never saw none, though I have passed many a time after dark a most terrible spot for them on the road at Thorpe.""

Etymology

From hogboy, from Old Norse haugr (“cairn; mound”) + bui (“dweller; tennant”). Cognate with Scots hogboon and Old Norse haugbúi.

Origin

Source language: Old Norse

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Inflected Forms

shag-boys (plural)

Synonyms

shag-foal

Questions

What does shag-boy mean?: A ghost or goblin.
Where does shag-boy come from?: It is traced to Old Norse.

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