shag-boy

plural shag-boys

1. A ghost or goblin.

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   Ghosts, bogies, and the supernatural generally have utterly vanished from this commonplace district before schools and newspapers. Even an old lady more than ninety years old said to us, "Fairies and shag-boys! lasses are often skeart at them, but I never saw none, though I have passed many a time after dark a most terrible spot for them on the road at Thorpe."

   1882 August 28, “From the Heart of the Wolds”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume 46, number 2, page 232

   Synonyms: shag-foal