An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

BOGILL about the stacks, or simply, Bogle, a play of children or young people, in which one hunts several others around the stacks of corn in a barn-yard, S.
Ritson.

It seems the same game with that called [Barley-bracks], q. v. The name has probably originated from the idea of the huntsman employed being a scarecrow to the rest.

BOGILL-BO, s.
1. A hobgoblin or spectre, S.
Ramsay.
2. A pettish humour.
Philotus.

In Lincolnsh. this word is used for a scarecrow, from bogill, or C. B. bogel-u, to affright, and bo, a hobgoblin, q. "the affrighting goblin."

To BOGG-SCLENT, v. n. Apparently, to avoid action, to abscond in the day of battle.
Colvil.

Perhaps in allusion to him who sklents or strikes off obliquely from the highway, into a bog, to avoid being taken prisoner.

BOGSTALKER, s. An idle, wandering, and stupid fellow; one who seems to have little to do, and no understanding, S.
V. [Stalker].
Ramsay.

Borrowed perhaps from outlaws, who were seen at a distance hunting in marshy places, where pursuit was more difficult.

BOID, s.
Maitland Poems.

Isl. bode, a term used to denote a wave agitated by the wind; unda maris cum vadosis scopulis luctans.