English
frayboggard
From fray (“fear, terror”) + boggard (“bugbear, ghost, goblin”).
A compound of fray ‘fear, terror’ + boggard ‘bugbear, ghost, goblin’
Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- ‘to cut’
Old French fraier
Middle English fraien ‘to beat so as to cause bruising, to bruise’
English fray
Today it means
noun A scarecrow.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / frayboggard