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frayboggard en · NOUN

Etymology

From fray (“fear, terror”) + boggard (“bugbear, ghost, goblin”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A scarecrow.
   • For like as a frayboggarde in a garden off Cucumbers kepeth nothinge, euen ſo are their goddes of wod, of ſyluer ⁊ golde: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Baruch vj:[70], folio liiij, recto:

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