bogle
Americannoun
noun
-
a dialect or archaic word for bogey 1
-
a scarecrow
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of bogle
1495–1505; bog (variant of bug 2 “bugbear, hobgoblin”) + -le
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
He looked pale, and almost fleered out of his wits, so I made sure he had seen the bogle that my granam used to frighten us with.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
Boggle, bog′l, v.i. to stop or hesitate as if at a bogle: to start with fright: to make difficulties about a thing: to equivocate.—n. a scruple, objection: a bungle.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
To-day the bogle wags, a thing of jest And open scorn; the very pipits mock it; A jenny wren, I'm told, has built her nest In one torn pocket!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 by Various
Though perhaps all human life is only a bogle tale!
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
