bogle

See also: Bogle

English

Alternative forms

• boggle

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly cognate with bug or from Welsh bwgwly (“to terrify”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒɡ.l̩/

Noun

bogle (plural bogles)

1. A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
2. (dialectal, dated) A scarecrow.
3. (dance) A Jamaican dance move that involves raising and lowering the arms while moving the body in a waving motion.
   • 2001 November 25, Diran Adebayo, “Young, gifted, black…and very confused”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     At the turn of the Nineties, the footballer Ian Wright would often celebrate his goals by running to the corner flag, and doing a ‘bogling’ move—the ‘bogle’ was a ragamuffin reggae dance then popular in the black community.

   • 2013 July 6, Kate Hutchinson, “It's summer, let's dance!”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     In Jamaica, there's a constant stream of new moves, corresponding to big club tunes. Dancers race to put videos online in the hope of starting the next bogle, dutty wine or hot wuk sensation.

Derived terms

• potato-bogle

Verb

bogle (third-person singular simple present bogles, present participle bogling, simple past and past participle bogled)

1. Obsolete form of boggle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bogle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: A-E

Anagrams

• Belgo-, Globe, Gobel, Goble, globe