bargeist

English

Noun

bargeist (plural bargeists)

1. Alternative spelling of barghest
   • 2014, Mercedes Lackey, Blood Red, Penguin (→ISBN):

     Very old, I mean, old enough to have had a dog buried at the foundations to serve as a bargeist? I don't recall any ruins, but if it had not been for that bargeist distracting her— him— I would not have been able to get my own shields up ...

   • 2017, Justin Fisher, The Gold Thief (Ned’s Circus of Marvels, Book 2), HarperCollins UK (→ISBN):

     That was the thing about a bargeist, the more frightened you became, the more you saw of it and, in turn ... the more you got frightened.