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bugge

bugge

Middle English

Noun

bugge

  1. bogy, hobgoblin, bugbear; scarecrow
    As a bugge either a man of raggis in a place where gourdis wexen kepith no thing, so ben her goddis of tree. — Wycliffe Bible, 1425

References

  • Middle English Dictionary, bugge

Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse. Compare English big.

Noun

bugge

  1. (dialectal) great man

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Germanic *bugja- ‎(“swollen up, thick”), compare bigge ‎(“powerful, strong”), Norwegian bugge ‎(“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge ‎(“goblin, snot”))

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