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Boggart

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of boggard (A bogey, a ghost) alt-of, alternative

    "OH! Maeſter—ſtrange things late I've ſeen— / And oft has boggart-haunted been ! / I'm ſure I's falt when ſtory's-tauld, / 'Till blude run aw' through veins ſo cauld !"

  2. 2
    A shapeshifting monster that feeds on fear.

    ""A boogeyman," I said. "Sometimes known as a boggle or a boggart. It's a weak form of phobophage - a fear-eater, mostly insubstantial.""

Etymology

As a monster that feeds on fear, coined by British novelist J. K. Rowling in 1999 in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

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