Middle English Dictionary Entry
bugge n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bugge n. |
| Etymology | Cp. LG bögge, boggelmann (Grimm, DW); cp. MnE bugbear, bogey & MnE dial. bug. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Bogy, hobgoblin, black-man; scarecrow; slotir ~.
Associated quotations
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Bar.6.69 : As a bugge either a man of raggis in a place where gourdis wexen kepith no thing, so ben her goddis of tree.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)55 : Bugge, or buglarde: Maurus, Ducius.
- c1455 Chaucer CT.NP.(Tak 32)B.4126 : Buggys [crit.ed.: the humour of malencolie Causeth ful many a man in sleep to crie For fere of blake beres..Or elles blake deueles wol hem take].
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)417 : Slotyrbugge: Cenulentus, Maurus, Obscenus, putibundus.