单词 | buggart |
释义 | † buggartn. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary) buga1425 buggart1440 gay horse1483 bogle?1507 chimera?1521 bog1527 terriculament1548 bugbear1552 bull-bear1561 hag1563 boggard1574 scare-bug1583 bull-beggar1584 kill-cow fray1589 poker1598 bug-boy1601 bogle-bo1603 mormo1605 mock-beggar1611 mormolukee1624 Tom Poker1673 raw-head1678 hobgoblin1709 bugaboo1733 Tom Po1744 spectre1774 bogy-man1862 bogy1865 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). < n.1440 |
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