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boggart
/ ˈbɒɡət /
noun
- dialect.a ghost or poltergeist
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Word History and Origins
Origin of boggart1
perhaps from bog , variant of bug ² + -ard
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Example Sentences
The story went that this boggart or ghost was at length "laid" by some magical or religious ceremony in Walton Church yard.
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I remember in my youth hearing a story of a headless boggart that haunted Preston streets and neighbouring lanes.
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It seems this boggart, although it was supposed to be "laid" in the most orthodox manner, still troubled the neighbourhood.
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This boggart, from its doings, appears to have been an exact counterpart of George Cheetham's plague.
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A very slight provincial change would make the latter boguerst, from whence, probably, the Lancashire boggart.
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