Definitions
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- noun
hobgoblin , evil spirit
Etymologies
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Welsh bwgan ("hobgoblin"), from Middle Welsh, possibly from Middle English bugge
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Examples
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Our population is small, [so we] dare not (bugan) think to constitute a single minzu, unable to expect to form an autonomous county, but at least should establish an autonomous xiang.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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But our _bý_ or _búa_, Ang. - Sax. _bugan_ and _beón_, and the Germ. (ich) _bin_ and _bauen_, have all been referred by learned philologists to the
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Turn prehenfa fuit [e - 15 unbep-pengon heom to cinge. *] him to jus] uxor, quam olim ceperat abfque Regis bugan ".
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