Definition of "boggard"

boggard¹

noun
plural boggards
1. (UK dialectal) A bogey: a ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature, especially a small local spirit haunting gloomy places or the scenes of violence.
  Quotations
  A Boggarde, spectrum.
  1570, P. Levens, Manipulus Vocabulorum
  He thinks every bush a boggard, i.e. a bugbear or phantasm.
  1768, John Ray, A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, published 1818, page 123
  Boggle, Boggart, a fearful object, a hobgoblin.
  1855, F.K. Robinson, Glossary of Yorkshire Words, page 17
2. (figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
  Quotations
  Nor be such buggarddes to the poor, yff they may not beare the bagge alone.
  1575, W. Whittingham, Brieff Discours of the Troubles Begonne at Franckford in Germany A.D. 1554
  Hell is but a boggarde to scarre children.
  a. 1599, in 1616, Robert Rollock, Lectures upon the History of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Ch. xiv, page 132
3. (obsolete) Any real or imagined thing which prompts a horse to boggle (take fright).

boggard²

noun
plural boggards
1. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
  Quotations
  Siege, jacques, bogard, or draught, latrina.
  1552, Richard Huloet, Abcedarium Anglico Latinum
  He [Satan] thought it wisdome to keep the land [of Ireland] for a Boggards for his unclean spirits.
  1647, Nathaniel Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, page 76