"shag-boy" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Scots hogboon",
      "name": "cog"
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        "2": "haugbúi"
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  "etymology_text": "From hogboy, from Old Norse haugr (“cairn; mound”) + bui (“dweller; tennant”). Cognate with Scots hogboon and Old Norse haugbúi.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "shag-boys",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Mythological creatures",
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          "ref": "1882 August, “From the Heart of the Wolds”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume 46, number 2, page 232",
          "text": "Ghosts, bogies, and the supernatural generally have utterly vanished from this commonplace district before schools and newspapers. Even an old lady more than ninety years old said to us, \"Fairies and shag-boys! lasses are often skeart at them, but I never saw none, though I have passed many a time after dark a most terrible spot for them on the road at Thorpe.\"",
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        "A ghost or goblin."
      ],
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          "goblin",
          "goblin"
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        "(Lincolnshire) A ghost or goblin."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "shag-foal"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shag-boy"
}

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      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "hogboon"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots hogboon",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "haugbúi"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse haugbúi",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hogboy, from Old Norse haugr (“cairn; mound”) + bui (“dweller; tennant”). Cognate with Scots hogboon and Old Norse haugbúi.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shag-boys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  ],
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      "expansion": "shag-boy (plural shag-boys)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "(Lincolnshire) A ghost or goblin."
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    }
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  "word": "shag-boy"
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