1894 Brewer’s / P / Potato-bogle
So the Scotch call a scarecrow. The head of these birdbogies being a big potato or a turnip.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.