Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of hobgoblin, spirit, or ghost believed in in the north of England, whose appearance to any one is supposed to prognosticate death or some great calamity.
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Examples
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Dale ran into the study, forgetting the crowbar. barguest
A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002
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Thinking ofBeowulf, he looked back at the word “barguest.”
A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002
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The barguest is an apparition, taking usually the form of a big black dog with saucer eyes.
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Drake, in his _Eboracum_, says (p. 7, Appendix), "I have been so frightened with stories of the barguest when I was a child, that I cannot help throwing away an etymology upon it.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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