noun

• 1A phantom or goblin.

  ‘One common one causing fright or dread was called in Yorkshire the boggart, in Scotland the bogle, and in England the bogey or bogeyman.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘But it is difficult to approach people who are often strangers and reason that what to them might just be the soundtrack of their daily lives, is to you the equivalent of a wee bogle pulling at all your nerve tendons.’

  Synonyms

  evil spirit, bogle, ghost, spectre, phantom, hobgoblin, ogre, troll, demon, devil, fiend, sprite, witch, warlock, apparition

  1. 1.1Scottish, Northern English A scarecrow.