barghest
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Noun — A huge black dog from old folk tales, said to have fierce teeth and claws and sometimes the power to change shape.
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Etymology
The word was probably inherited from Northern Middle English *berghgast, *barghgast, itself from bergh, bargh (“barrow”) plus gast (“ghost”). Some have suggested the first element is instead burgh (“town”) or bere (“bear”), but these alternatives lack semantic motivation.
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