Obs. or dial. [a variant of BOGGARD, the form of which suggests formation from bugge, BUG sb.1 (Still used in Cheshire.)] A boggard, a bogy.
1575. Hist. Troubles Frankfort (1642), 136. They two … may not be … such buggards to the poore if they may not beare the bagge alone.
1865. [Miss Lahee], Betty o’ Yep’s Laughable Tale, 6. Railway styemers scroikin away through th’ country, enew to flay a buggart eawt o’th’ greawnd.
