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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bogle \Bo"gle\, n. [Scot. and North Eng. bogle, bogill, bugill, specter; as a verb, to terrify, fr. W. bwgwl threatening, fear, bwg, bwgan, specter, hobgoblin. Cf. Bug.] A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
Wiktionary
alt. A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear. n. A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
Wikipedia
A bogle, boggle or bogill is a Northumbrian and Scots term for a ghost or folkloric being, used for a variety of related folkloric creatures including Shellycoats, Barguests, Brags, the Hedley Kow and even giants such as those associated with Cobb's Causey (also known as "ettins", "yetuns" or "yotuns" in Northumberland and "Etenes", "Yttins" or "Ytenes" in the South and South West). They are reputed to live for the simple purpose of perplexing mankind, rather than seriously harming or serving them.
The name is derived from the Middle-English Bugge (of which the term bogey is also derived) which is in turn a cognate of the German term word bögge (of which böggel-mann ("Goblin") is derived) and possibly the Norwegian dialect word bugge meaning "important man". The Welsh Bwg could also be connected, and was thought in the past to be the origin of the English term; however, it has been suggested that it is itself a borrowing from Middle English.
One of the most famous usages of the term was by Gavin Douglas, who was in turn quoted by Robert Burns at the beginning of Tam O' Shanter:
Of Brownyis and of Bogillis full is this Buke.
There is a popular story of a bogle known as Tatty Bogle, who would hide himself in potato fields (hence his name) and either attack unwary humans or cause blight within the patch. This bogle was depicted as a scarecrow, "bogle" being an old name for "scarecrow" in various parts of England and Scotland. Another popular Scottish reference to bogles comes in The Bogle by the Boor Tree, a Scots poem written by W. D. Cocker. In this ghostly ode, the Bogle is heard in the wind and in the trees to "fricht wee weans".
In the Scottish lowlands circa 1950 AD a bogle was a ghost as was a bogey-man, and a Tattie-Bogle was a scarecrow, used to keep creatures out of the potato fields. All three words were in common use among the children.
It is unclear what the connection is between "Bogle" and various other similarly named creatures in various folklores. The "Bocan" of the Highlands may be a cognate of the Norse Puki however, and thus also the English " Puck".
The Larne Weekly Reporter of 31 March 1866, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, carried a front page article entitled Bogles in Ballygowan, detailing strange goings on in a rural area where a particular house became the target for missiles being thrown through windows and on one occasion through the roof. Local people were terrified. The occurrences appeared to have ceased after several months and were being blamed on the fact that the house in question had been refurbished using materials from an older house that was apparently the preserve of the "little people". This is one of the few references in Northern Ireland to "bogles" although the phrase "bogey man" is widely used.
Bogle (22 August 1964 – 20 January 2005), born Gerald Levy, and also known as Bogle Dancer, Mr Bogle, Father Bogle, and Mr Wacky, was a Jamaican dancehall star. His stage name was a reference to Jamaican National Hero Paul Bogle.
Bogle is a surname, and may refer to:
- Andrew Cathcart Bogle (1829–1860), Scottish soldier
- Bob Bogle (1934–2009), American musician
- Donald Bogle, American writer
- Eric Bogle (b. 1944), Australian singer
- George Bogle (diplomat) (1746–1781), Scottish diplomat and adventurer
- George Bogle of Daldowie, (1701–1782) American merchant
- Joanna Bogle, British broadcaster
- John C. Bogle, American businessman
- John Bogle (artist), (c.1746–1803) Scottish painter
- Mike Bogle, (b. 1961) American musician
- Paul Bogle, (1822–1865) Jamaican preacher
- Phil Bogle, (b.1979) American footballer
- Robert Bogle, (b. 1943) Canadian politician
is a manga series written by Yuko Ichiju and illustrated by Shino Taira. The individual chapters were originally serialized in Akita Shoten's Princess magazine between February 6, 2002, and April 5, 2003. It was later published in three tankōbon volumes from August 22, 2002 to July 10, 2003. At the New York Anime Festival, Go! Comi announced the manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America. It was adapted into two drama CDs by King Records; the first was released on February 26, 2003, while the second was published on October 22, 2003.
Usage examples of "bogle".
Most of them risked so much by leaving good jobs with much larger variety chains to join up with a one-horse outfit run by an overactive dreamer down in Bentonvillepeople like Clarence Leis, Willard Walker, Charlie Baum, Ron Loveless, Bob Bogle, Claude Harris, Ferold Arend, Charlie Cate, Al Miles, Thomas Jefferson, Gary Reinboth.
Castro era el fantasma de Tichborne, pero un pobre fantasma habitado por el genio de Bogle.
A young man named Jim Hacket, and his cousin Daria Sartor, were out sky-watching at a place called Bogle Ridge one night when they saw a group of red, green, and white lights descend from the sky and drop into a gully close to their position.
Jim and Daria visited Woody the next day and the contactee accompanied them to the same spot on Bogle Ridge that night.
Uno de esos avisos cayó en las blandas manos funerarias del negro Bogle, que concibió un proyecto genial.
The fleshers and brewers and smiths and weavers and skinners and saddlers and salters and cappers and masons and cutlers and fletchers and plasterers and armourers and porters and water carriers, and the one-eyed man who had called at Bogle House selling fumigating pans.
Aw crivens, this is whut happens when things get sloppy an’ bogles take over.
He had left them at Bogle House, which the Culter family and the Flemings shared, and had found his town like one with the plague at the door.
But look out for the elves called cacodemon, afrite, deev, bogle, dwerger, pigwidgeon and flibbertygibbet - they can be very nasty.
Hundreds of bogles were clustered around the slab, but at a distance, as if they were not keen on going any closer.
The bogles kept clear of that, at least, but as the ferryman pushed away from the shore, Big Yan kicked Roland on the boot and pointed upward.
A pure mass of orange was pouring into the cave, so many bogles that there was no space between them.
Besides the Hounds, there are also bogles who hunt in the darkness, and the fey folk that try to lead riders astray.
Worse, when they come back we will have no room to stable your horses—and left outside, I fear the bogles would eat them before morning.
Take flight, ye host of the Unseelie Court, ye bogles and banshees and blood-devouring Leanan-Sidhe who torment those weaker than myself!