Meanings
nounfrayboggard (plural frayboggards)
plural frayboggards · alternative fray-boggard
- obsoleteA scarecrow.First known use c. 1530s
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], folio liiij, recto
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Origin
From fray (“fear, terror”) + boggard (“bugbear, ghost, goblin”).
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