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Bogie vs Boggard - What's the difference?

bogie | boggard |

As nouns the difference between bogie and boggard

is that bogie is (rail|british|australia|new zealand|canada) structure with axles and wheels under a railway carriage or locomotive, called railroad truck in us english also used under semitrailers, and lorries with more than one rear axle while boggard is (archaic) a ghost or goblin.

bogie

English

Alternative forms

* bogey * bogy

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rail, British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) Structure with axles and wheels under a railway carriage or locomotive, called railroad truck in US English. Also used under semitrailers, and lorries with more than one rear axle.
  • (Indian English) Railway carriage
  • .
  • (military) An aircraft of unknown friend/foe status. (compare bandit)
  • (golf) A score one stroke higher than par on any one hole.
  • (music) A toy similar to a violin bow, consisting of a wooden stick with notches along one or more sides or edges to produce a rattly noise when kratzed (stroked) against a hard edge, lip of container etc.
  • A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
  • (Ulster Scots) .

    • 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.