bugge – Middle English noun declension

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Noun: bugge

Sg.	bugge
Pl.	buggis

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Dative

Sample Sentences

As a bugge either a man of raggis in a place where gourdis wexen kepith no thing, so ben her goddis of tree. — Wycliffe Bible, 1425, W:Letter of Jeremiah (W:Book of Baruch 6:69). loose translation of the Latin "Nam sicut in cucumerario formido nihil custodit, ita sunt dii illorum lignei...", in turn translating the Greek "Ωσπερ γαρ εν σικυηρατω προβασκανιον ουδεν φυλασσον, ουτως οι θεοι αυτων εισι ξυλινοι..."

Nouns inflected like bugge

comaunde, venymynge, pursuyte, dremere, waverynge, gruntynge, college, strewynge, synagoge, flete, mytre, cothe, thele, jubbe, spyne, selde, neiȝboresse, governynge, sanguisuge, magnete, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”). Compare bigge (“powerful, strong”), Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge, Boggelmann (“goblin, snot”) from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”).

Verbs referencing "bugge"

English Nouns bug, English Nouns bogey, English Nouns bugbear, English Nouns bugan.