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English
Etymology 1
bog + -let.
Noun
boglet (plural boglets)
- A small patch of boggy ground.
1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter VII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. , volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, , →OCLC, page 111:In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
1919, Israel Zangwill, “Bundock on His Beat”, in Jinny the Carrier, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, section III, page 12: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)
- A kind of supernatural being.
2011, Rob Thurman, Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel:Goodfellow and the vampire had dropped us off in the limo at the park's south entrance. […] I was again smacking the claws of the boglet above me. […] They ate muggers and joggers. […] "Don't make me shoot off the end of your tail."
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
Related to bogle
Noun
boglet (plural boglets)
- A boglet, a bogle, a ghost or supernatural being.
1991, Tocher, numbers 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."- (please add an English translation of this quotation)