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frayboggard

noun

Etymology

From fray (“fear, terror”) + boggard (“bugbear, ghost, goblin”).

  1. derived from *harduz✻ — “hard”
  2. derived from *-hard✻ — “hardy, bold”
  3. derived from -ard
  4. inherited from -ard
  5. compounded as boggard — “bog + -ard”
  6. compounded as frayboggard — “fray + boggard”

Definitions

  1. A scarecrow.

    • For like as a frayboggarde in a garden off Cucumbers kepeth nothinge, euen ſo are their goddes of wod, of ſyluer ⁊ golde:

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