bogle

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

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Lang syne, when I was a callant in the south country, I mind there was an auld, bald bogle in the Peewic Moss.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis

“Na,” said he; “it will be made by a bogle and her wanting ta heid upon his body.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear; Thou’rt to love and heaven sae dear, Nocht of ill may come thee near, My bonnie 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

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