单词 | buggane |
释义 | bugganen. English regional (west midlands) and (now chiefly) Manx English. An imaginary evil spirit or creature; a bogeyman. †to take buggane: (of a horse) to shy, take fright (obsolete). Cf. to take bug at bug n.1 1, to take buggart at buggart n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] evil angel, spiritc950 ghosteOE uncleanOE demonOE devilOE devilshineOE groa1225 debleriea1325 devilnessa1400 devilryc1400 sprat?a1475 nicker1481 fiend of hell1509 imp1526 virtue1584 elf1587 succubus1601 blue devilc1616 black man1656 woolsaw1757 buggane1775 bhut1785 demonic1785 pishachi1807 devil-devil1831 skookum1838 taipo1848 lightning bird1870 demonry1883 pisaca1885 mafufunyanas1963 mare1981 1775 Monthly Rev. Feb. 192 If a horse takes fright, the people will say, ‘He spied a buggan’; or ‘the horse took buggan’. 1847 Mona's Herald 8 Sept. 3/3 Like the big Buggane, and all other finite creatures, the Phynnodderee had a spice of mischief in him. 1872 G. M. Hopkins Jrnl. 12 Aug. in Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 165 A foolish legend of a tailor and a goblin called a Buggane. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) If yo' dunna be qweet I'll let bugan tak' yo. 1887 H. Caine Deemster ii The men craythurs that hang up their hats over the straw to fright the boaganes. 1894 H. Caine Manxman vi. i. 359 You'd have a buggane riding on your breast the night through. 1923 Mariner's Mirror 9 213 The Manxmen also had sea brownies, the land ‘Buggane’ sometimes going to sea unless the usual rite was performed to prevent this. 1957 Isle of Man Examiner 21 June 11/4 The Buggane was said to have appeared and frightened him out of the Church. 1998 J. Cope Mod. Antiquarian ii. v. 331/1 The Isle of Man is a magical 'tween times place, full of..terrifying spirit monsters such as the dreaded buggane and the Moddey Dhoo. Phrases† to play the (very) buggane (with a person): to behave malevolently (towards a person); to play the devil. Cf. to play (the) puck with at puck n.1 1b. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 16 To play the bugan, to play the devil. 1868 R. W. Huntley Gloss. Cotswold (Gloucs.) Dial. Introd. 18 ‘Play the very Buggan with you’, is to spoil, to harrass; ‘Buggan’ meaning Satan or any evil spirit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1775 |
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