bogle
Example Sentences
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
In this pious design the bogle was happily frustrated by the intervention of some trees which grew on the precipice, and to which my unhappy grand-uncle clung with the zeal of a drowning man.
From Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland by Anonymous
The same flag that keeps aff a witch may easily fetch a bogle.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
Maybe," answered the doctor, "but it's a loup they often bogle at.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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
