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Boggart vs Boggard - What's the difference?

boggart | boggard | Alternative forms |

Boggart is an alternative form of boggard.


As nouns the difference between boggart and boggard

is that boggart is while boggard is (archaic) a ghost or goblin.

boggart

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • boggard

    English

    Alternative forms

    * boggart

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A ghost or goblin.
  • * 1818 , John Ray, A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (reprinted from 1768 edition), p. 123:
  • He thinks every bush a boggard , i.e. a bugbear or phantasm.

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.