different between boglet vs bogle

English

Etymology 1

bog +? -let.

Noun

boglet (plural boglets)

1. A small patch of boggy ground.
   • 1919, Israel Zangwill, Jinny the Carrier:

     The practical Martha was in fact advancing with an improvised leaping-pole that had already carried her neatly over the brook and would obviously bring Bundock over the boglet.

Etymology 2

From Scots boglet.

Noun

boglet (plural boglets)

1. A kind of supernatural being.

Anagrams

• goblet

Scots

Etymology

Related to bogle

Noun

boglet (plural boglets)

1. A boglet, a bogle, a ghost or supernatural being.
   • 1991, Tocher, issues 40-43, page 201:

     "Bless us aa," said Robbie, "but he's no a very pleasant lookin corpse. Oh, but he's a boglet." An 'e man says, "Aye, we'll probably make the try an brak he's bones tae get him in because he's died sittin up [in] convulsion."

English

Alternative forms

• boggle

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly cognate with bug.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??l/

Noun

bogle (plural bogles)

1. A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
2. (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.

Anagrams

• Belgo-, Globe, Gobel, Goble, globe

Sources

• 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