boggart

British  

/ ˈbɒɡət /

noun

1. dialect  a ghost or poltergeist

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Etymology

Origin of boggart

perhaps from bog , variant of _bug ² + _-ard

Example Sentences

“A heron, was it? Might’ve been. I thought it was a flying boggart. They do fly, some of ’em, making a kind of a whirring noise.

From Slate

For example, a boggart, which can transform into one’s worst fear, can be eradicated with laughter.

From Time

The Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson with the Boggart follows a familiar pattern: it gives us information that we know from the book and nothing that surprising.

From The Guardian

The Boggart is a fairy still believed in by Staffordshire peasants.

From Project Gutenberg

They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the first thing they did find Was a tatter't boggart, in a field, an' that they left behind.

From Project Gutenberg