boggart
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
boggart (plural boggarts)
- Alternative spelling of boggard (A bogey, a ghost)
- 1787, William Collins, “Song XXV: A Lancaſhire Farmer's deſcription of an Earthquake”, in The New Vocal Miscellany, or, A Fountain of Pure Harmony; Containing Sixty New Songs, page 32:
- OH! Maeſter—ſtrange things late I've ſeen— / And oft has boggart-haunted been ! / I'm ſure I's falt when ſtory's-tauld, / 'Till blude run aw' through veins ſo cauld !
- 1821, Lee Gibbons, chapter III, in The Cavalier, volume II, page 48:
- “ […] Are na ye shamed, ye weak gawly, that yc darena stir ower the threshold for fear of a boggart?”
- 1897 August, Harwood Brierley, “The Swale and Its Waterfalts”, in Sylvanus urban, editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLXXXIII, page 191:
- Hoggart's Leap is a weird name, suggesting to the uninitiated some connection with a local tradition and a boggart or a barguest of Swaledale renown ; but I believe that Hoggart is really a family name, there being Hoggarth's Farm about two miles further up the Swale.
- 1898 December, George Morley, “The Sleeping Beauty. A Woodlander's Adventure”, in Sylvanus urban, editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLXXXV, The Verger and the Woodman, page 532:
- […] but when it came to a question of standing up against the boggart of Arden—a thing, in the popular imagination, composed of neither flesh, blood, nor bones—even a physical giant had qualms and misgivings, and so had Joseph Wand.
See also[edit]
- Boggart, on Harry Potter Wiki.