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fray-boggard

fray-boggard is the alternative form of frayboggard.

Meaning of frayboggard

Noun

frayboggard (plural frayboggards)

  1. (obsolete) A scarecrow.
    • For like as a frayboggarde in a garden off Cucumbers kepeth nothinge, euen ſo are their goddes of wod, of ſyluer ⁊ golde:1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Baruch vj:[70]...

Forms of fray-boggard

pluralfray-boggards

Questions about fray-boggard

What is fray-boggard the alternative form of?
Fray-boggard is the alternative form of frayboggard.

Words near fray-boggard in the dictionary

  1. fraxinin
  2. fraxinins
  3. fraxiparine
  4. fray
  5. Fray Bentos
  6. fray-boggard
  7. fray-boggards
  8. frayable
  9. frayboggard
  10. frayboggards
  11. frayed

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