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boggard en · NOUN · etymology 1

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”).

Meanings

1. (UK, dialectal) A bogey: a ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature, especially a small local spirit haunting gloomy places or the scenes of violence.
   • A Boggarde, spectrum. 1570, P. Levens, Manipulus Vocabulorum:
   • He thinks every bush a boggard, i.e. a bugbear or phantasm. 1768, John Ray, A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, published 1818, page 123:
2. (figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
   • Hell is but a boggarde to scarre children. a. 1599, in 1616, Robert Rollock, Lectures upon the History of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Ch. xiv, page 132
   • Nor be such buggarddes to the poor, yff they may not beare the bagge alone. 1575, W. Whittingham, Brieff Discours of the Troubles Begonne at Franckford in Germany A.D. 1554:
3. (obsolete) Any real or imagined thing which prompts a horse to boggle (take fright).

Forms

Deriveds

frayboggard

Synonyms

goblin (hostile supernatural creature)

boggard en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From bog (“latrine; outhouse”) + -ard.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   • He [Satan] thought it wisdome to keep the land [of Ireland] for a Boggards for his unclean spirits. 1647, Nathaniel Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, page 76:
   • Siege, jacques, bogard, or draught, latrina. 1552, Richard Huloet, Abcedarium Anglico Latinum:

Forms

Synonyms

outhouse