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boggleboes

boggleboes is the plural of bogglebo.

boggleboes is the plural of boggleboe.

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

Questions about boggleboes

What is boggleboes the plural of?
Boggleboes is the plural of bogglebo.

Words near boggleboes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boggleboes (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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