Obs. [Possibly a variant of bugge, BUG ‘terror, bugbear,’ found in 14th c.: cf. BOGLE, BOGGLE, and BOGGARD.] A bugbear, a source of dread. To take bog: to BOGGLE v. 1, 2. Cf. BOGGLE sb.1
1527. St. Papers Hen. VIII., I. 206. Against whom … it shal not a litel conferre, that this man be a bogge.
1656. Sanderson, Serm. (1689), 128. Men who make no conscience of a lye, do yet take some bog at an Oath.
1676. Etheredge, Man of Mode, I. i. (1684), 5. Farewel Bogg.
