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Definition of Boggart
1. bogle [n -S] - See also: bogle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boggart
Literary usage of Boggart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)
"Sometimes their bread and butter would be snatched away, or their porringers of
bread and milk be capsized by an invisible hand ; for the boggart never let ..."
2. Papers of the Manchester Literary Club by Manchester Literary Club (1880)
"THE NORTH OF ENGLAND DOMESTIC OR "FLITTING" boggart: ITS SCANDINAVIAN ORIGIN.
... This boggart is variously known as Puck, Robin Goodfellow, and Hobgoblin. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Perhaps a corruption of bun-boggart. See NED. bulled, swollen. B. Jonson, Sad
Shepherd, i. 2 (George). ..."
4. Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore, (chiefly Lancashire and the North by Charles Hardwick (1872)
""boggart," by some writers is regarded as the Lancashire cognomen for " Puck"
or " Robin Goodfellow." Certainly there are, or were, many boggarts whose ..."
5. Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events by Sabine Baring-Gould (1900)
"THE boggart OF HELLEN-POT. A TALE OF THE YORKSHIRE MOORS.1 I TOOK the opportunity
last autumn, just before the breakup of the weather, of shaking off the ..."
6. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1898)
"A party of members visited boggart Hole Clough in the afternoon, and were very
much delighted with the development of this fine ground. ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"H. Miss LAHKE. lonesome clough, many a quiet stream and ancient building, is the
reputed haunt of some local sprite or boggart. ..."
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