bugge

Middle English

Etymology

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

Noun

bugge

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 Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse buggi. Compare English big.

Noun

bugge m (definite singular buggen, indefinite plural buggar, definite plural buggane)

(dialectal) great man

References

“bugge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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