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单词 buggart
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buggartn.

Forms: late Middle English buglarde, 1500s buggarddes (plural), 1500s–1700s buggard, 1600s 1800s buggart.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bug n.1, -ard suffix.
Etymology: Probably < bug n.1 + -ard suffix. Compare later boggard n.2With the form buglarde perhaps compare bogle n. (see forms and discussion at that entry). Perhaps compare also muglard n. and shovelard n., both attested in the same source. Compare also rare English regional (Gloucestershire) bugger, in the same sense (perhaps a variant or alteration of this word):a1803 R. Hole in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 433/1 Bugger, a hobgoblin, puck, ghost.
Obsolete (English regional (northern and midlands) in later use).
An imaginary evil spirit or creature; a bogeyman. Also: an object or source of (esp. needless) fear or dread; an imaginary terror. to take buggart: (of a horse) to shy, take fright. Cf. to take bug at bug n.1 1, to take buggane at buggane n.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary)
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 55 Bugge, or buglarde, maurus, ducius.
1574 Brieff Disc. Troubles Franckford p. clx They two..maie not be..such buggarddes to the poore yff they maye not beare the bagge alone.
1605 J. Radford Directorie teaching Way to Truth xlii. 367 They make so small reckening of Purgatorie, but account it as a buggard to feare children.
1678 E. R. Experienced Farrier i. 66 It [sc. the horse] shews a weak Sight and unnecessary starting or finding of Buggards.
1682 T. Shadwell Lancashire-witches i. 14 Haunted with Buggarts, and Witches.
1840 Brit. Farmer's Mag. Oct. 297 Aw wur summut loike a horse that's ta'en buggart; aw wurn't so soon settled.
1865 M. R. Lahee Betty o' Yeps Tale 6 Railway styemers scroikin away through th' country, enew to flay a buggart eawt o'th' greawnd.
a1895 T. C. Warrington & A. Pope MS Coll. Staffs. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 326/1 My horse took buggart.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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