Talk:bogart

that's funny. i was wondering where this came from when a friend mentioned that there are some sort of little gremlin type creatures in european mythology called bogarts.


 * Actually, you're friend's referring to a boggart, usually with two 'g's -- an evil spirit or creature in Celtic Mythology and British folklore, quite like a gremlin, who causes household mischief. The name is also borrowed in the Harry Potter novels for a shape-shifter who takes the form of the intended victim's worst fear. See Boggart (Harry Potter). -- Thisis0 06:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Actual examples
Can we get actual examples of this, dating back to the earliest uses? 24.29.228.33 06:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

RFV discussion: September 2015–February 2016
Rfv all noun senses (except "selfish person" sense)

This article has a massive number of noun definitions that I simply cannot find verification of anywhere. "What a bogart", which appears in several of the examples, doesn't even appear once in the entire Google Books corpus. A couple of Google Groups for the "selfish person" sense (and some for "an act of bogarting", which might be the only noun definition that isn't in there), but that's it. Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:39, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

(Amazingly, all this has been in the entry virtually untouched since it was created in 2004) Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:50, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * All RFV failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 22:49, 14 February 2016 (UTC)