noun
boggart
Boggart (noun) means a monster in folklore that changes shape and grows stronger on people's fear.
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A monster in folklore that changes shape and grows stronger on people's fear.
"I pushed open the lid, half-expecting a Boggart to burst out of the trunk, taking the form of my worst nightmare."
— Autumn Reed, Touch of Wrath (2019)
"The boggart has brought you here because it hopes to feed off you like it has been trying to feed off me."
— C. T. Phipps, Michael Suttkus (2021)
""A boogeyman," I said. "Sometimes known as a boggle or a boggart. It's a weak form of phobophage - a fear-eater, mostly insubstantial.""
— Jim Butcher, Brief Cases: The Dresden Files (2018)
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Etymology
Variant of boggard, recorded since 18th century. As a monster that feeds on fear, coined by British novelist J. K. Rowling in 1999 in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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"boggart" (noun) means a monster in folklore that changes shape and grows stronger on people's fear.
