Boggartとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

boggart (plural boggarts)

1. (mythology) Alternative spelling of boggard (A bogey, a ghost)
   • 1787, William Collins, “Song XXV: A Lancaſhire Farmer's deſcription of an Earthquake”, in The New Vocal Miscellany, or, A Fountain of Pure Harmony; Containing Sixty New Songs, page 32:

     OH! Maeſter—ſtrange things late I've ſeen— / And oft has boggart-haunted been ! / I'm ſure I's falt when ſtory's-tauld, / 'Till blude run aw' through veins ſo cauld !

   • 1821, Lee Gibbons, chapter III, in The Cavalier, volume II, page 48:

     “ […] Are na ye shamed, ye weak gawly, that ye darena stir ower the threshold for fear of a boggart?”

   • 1897 August, Harwood Brierley, “The Swale and Its Waterfalts”, in Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLXXXIII, page 191:

     Hoggart's Leap is a weird name, suggesting to the uninitiated some connection with a local tradition and a boggart or a barguest of Swaledale renown ; but I believe that Hoggart is really a family name, there being Hoggarth's Farm about two miles further up the Swale.

   • 1898 December, George Morley, “The Sleeping Beauty. A Woodlander's Adventure”, in Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLXXXV, The Verger and the Woodman, page 532:

     […] but when it came to a question of standing up against the boggart of Arden—a thing, in the popular imagination, composed of neither flesh, blood, nor bones—even a physical giant had qualms and misgivings, and so had Joseph Wand.

2. (fantasy) A shapeshifting monster that feeds on fear.
   • 2018 June 5, Jim Butcher, Brief Cases: The Dresden Files, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     "A boogeyman," I said. "Sometimes known as a boggle or a boggart. It's a weak form of phobophage - a fear-eater, mostly insubstantial."

   • 2019 March 25, Autumn Reed, Touch of Wrath, Autumn Reed:

     I pushed open the lid, half-expecting a Boggart to burst out of the trunk, taking the form of my worst nightmare.

   • 2021 April 27, C. T. Phipps, Michael Suttkus, A Nightmare on Elk Street, Crossroad Press:

     The boggart has brought you here because it hopes to feed off you like it has been trying to feed off me.

参考

• Boggart, on Harry Potter Wiki.

アナグラム

• braggot, grotbag