Etymology

bugan

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Today it means: hobgoblin, evil spirit Full definition →

Welsh bwgan ← Middle English bugge
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The story

  1. Middle English · derived frombugge
  2. Welsh · borrowed frombwgan“hobgoblin”
  3. English todaybugan

From Welsh bwgan (“hobgoblin”), from Middle Welsh, possibly from Middle English bugge.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishbugge all →

bugbogey

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.