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boggleboe

boggleboe is the alternative form of bogglebo.

Meaning of bogglebo

Noun

bogglebo (plural boggleboes)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A bugbear (imaginary fearsome creature).
  2. (UK) A witch.
    • In the north country witches were sometimes called boggleboes. This was the name given to a woman from Hylton. [...] to the villagers of Hylton and the stall keepers at the market, she was known as Old Bogglebo.1989, Ken Radford, Fire Burn, page 59

Forms of boggleboe

pluralboggleboes

Questions about boggleboe

What is boggleboe the alternative form of?
Boggleboe is the alternative form of bogglebo.

Words near boggleboe in the dictionary

  1. boggish
  2. boggle
  3. boggle eyed
  4. boggle-eyed
  5. bogglebo
  6. boggleboe
  7. boggleboes
  8. boggled
  9. boggled down
  10. boggler
  11. bogglers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boggleboe (page history and authors); bogglebo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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