bogle

Uncertain; possibly cognate with English bug, or derived from Welsh bwgwly (“to terrify”).^[1]

• enPR: bŏg′əl, bō′gəl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒɡ.əl/, (older) /ˈbɔːɡ.əl/; /ˈbəʊ̯.ɡəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɡ.əl/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈbɑɡ.əl/; /ˈboʊ̯.ɡəl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒɡ.əl/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈbɑɡ.əl/; /ˈboʊ̯.ɡəl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɡ.əl/; /ˈbəʉ̯.ɡəl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒɡ.əl/; /ˈbɐʉ̯.ɡəl/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɡ.əl/; /ˈbo.ɡəl/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɡ.əl/; /ˈboː.ɡəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡəl, -əʊɡəl
• Hyphenation: bog‧le, bo‧gle

bogle (plural bogles)

1. (UK, especially Scotland) A goblin, imp, bogeyman, bugbear or similar a frightful being or phantom.^[2]
   • 1820, Gibby and the ghaist:

     For ilka place I ha'e is already fu',
     But ae big room-'deed frien', I needna lie t'yne
     An' that has long been haunted by a bogle

   • 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:

     “Montgomery,” said I, “what was that thing that came after me? Was it a beast or was it a man?”
     “If you don’t sleep to-night,” he said, “you’ll be off your head to-morrow.”
     I stood up in front of him. “What was that thing that came after me?” I asked.
     He looked me squarely in the eyes, and twisted his mouth askew. His eyes, which had seemed animated a minute before, went dull. “From your account,” said he, “I’m thinking it was a bogle.”
     I felt a gust of intense irritation, which passed as quickly as it came. I flung myself into the chair again, and pressed my hands on my forehead. The puma began once more.

2. (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.
3. (dance) A Jamaican dance move that involves raising and lowering the arms while moving the body in a waving motion.
   • 2001 November 25, Diran Adebayo, “Young, gifted, black…and very confused”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer Ian Wright would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move—the ‘bogle’ was a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community.

   • 2013 July 6, Kate Hutchinson, “It's summer, let's dance!”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     In Jamaica, there's a constant stream of new moves, corresponding to big club tunes. Dancers race to put videos online in the hope of starting the next bogle, dutty wine or hot wuk sensation.

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bogle (third-person singular simple present bogles, present participle bogling, simple past and past participle bogled)

1. Obsolete form of boggle.

• The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: A-E

• Belgo-, Globe, Gobel, Goble, globe