frayboggard
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Circa 1530s.[1] From fray (“frighten”) + boggard (“ghost, goblin, bugbear”).
Noun
frayboggard (plural frayboggards)
- (obsolete) A scarecrow.
- 1535, Myles Coverdale, Baruch 6:70[1]:
- For like as a frayboggarde in a garden off Cucumbers keepeth nothinge, even ſo are their goddes of wod, of ſylver ⁊ golde:
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “scarecrow”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 8 May 2018: “Also fray-boggard (1530s).”