bogle

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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

O happy be the woodbine bower, Nae nightly bogle make it eerie; Nor ever sorrow stain the hour, The place and time I met my dearie!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

But what most of them felt was perhaps rather broadly expressed by Maitland when he called religion 'a bogle of the nursery.'

From Short Studies on Great Subjects by Froude, James Anthony

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

This bogle stood at the doorway when we ourselves went to have our first Turkish bath.

From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Stables, Gordon