bogle

See also: Bogle

English

Etymology

UncertainCategory:English terms with unknown etymologies#BOGLE; possibly cognate with English bug, or derived from WelshCategory:English terms derived from Welsh#BOGLE bwgwly (“to terrify”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

bogle (plural bogles)Category:English lemmas#BOGLECategory:English nouns#BOGLECategory:English countable nouns#BOGLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOGLECategory:Pages with entries#BOGLECategory:Pages with 1 entry#BOGLE

  1. (UKCategory:British English#BOGLE, especially ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#BOGLE) A goblin, imp, bogeyman, bugbear or similar a frightful being or phantom.[2]
    • 1820, Gibby and the ghaist:
      For ilka place I ha'e is already fu',
      But ae big room-'deed frien', I needna lie t'yne
      An' that has long been haunted by a bogle
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    • 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:
      “Montgomery,” said I, “what was that thing that came after me? Was it a beast or was it a man?”
      “If you don’t sleep to-night,” he said, “you’ll be off your head to-morrow.”
      I stood up in front of him. “What was that thing that came after me?” I asked.
      He looked me squarely in the eyes, and twisted his mouth askew. His eyes, which had seemed animated a minute before, went dull. “From your account,” said he, “I’m thinking it was a bogle.”
      I felt a gust of intense irritation, which passed as quickly as it came. I flung myself into the chair again, and pressed my hands on my forehead. The puma began once more.
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  2. (dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#BOGLE, datedCategory:English dated terms#BOGLE) A scarecrow.
  3. (danceCategory:en:Dance#BOGLE) A Jamaican dance move that involves raising and lowering the arms while moving the body in a waving motion.
    • 2001 November 25, Diran Adebayo, “Young, gifted, black…and very confused”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:
      At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer Ian Wright would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move—the ‘bogle’ was a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community.
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    • 2013 July 6, Kate Hutchinson, “It's summer, let's dance!”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      In Jamaica, there's a constant stream of new moves, corresponding to big club tunes. Dancers race to put videos online in the hope of starting the next bogle, dutty wine or hot wuk sensation.
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Derived terms

Verb

bogle (third-person singular simple present bogles, present participle bogling, simple past and past participle bogled)Category:English lemmas#BOGLECategory:English verbs#BOGLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BOGLECategory:Pages with entries#BOGLECategory:Pages with 1 entry#BOGLE

  1. Obsolete form of boggleCategory:English obsolete forms#BOGLE.

References

  1. ↑ Charles P. G. Scott, 'Bogus and His Crew', Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 42 (1911), pp. 157-174.
  2. ↑ “bogle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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