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frayboggards

frayboggards is the plural 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]...

Questions about frayboggards

What is frayboggards the plural of?
Frayboggards is the plural of frayboggard.

Words near frayboggards in the dictionary

  1. Fray Bentos
  2. fray-boggard
  3. fray-boggards
  4. frayable
  5. frayboggard
  6. frayboggards
  7. frayed
  8. frayedness
  9. Frayer
  10. Frayers
  11. frayest

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