Definitions for bogy

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bogy bo·gy

Spelling: [boh-gee; for 1, 2 also boo g-ee, Bogy is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in bogy (bgoy).

Definitions for bogy

noun

1. a hobgoblin; evil spirit.
2. anything that haunts, frightens, annoys, or harasses.
3. something that functions as a real or imagined barrier that must be overcome, bettered, etc.:
4. Military. bogey1 (def 3).
5. bogie1 .

Origin of bogy

1830-40; bog, variant of bug² (noun) + -y²

Examples for bogy

That he is a fable invented by the Inner Ring, a bogy to frighten us with.

And I had nothing to eat, and I was so frightened—for she said there was a bogy there—that I nearly died.

Here we are, safe and sound, and met no bogy, thank goodness!

The fear of ill-luck, in other words, is the bogy that haunts him night and day.

Yet in the farmer's eye it was "shiftless" (the New Englander's bogy).

bogy, distributing his precious belongings in bits about the globe.

These machines must be safe to ride in, but the bogy of radiation was frightening.

bogy, the personification of the aimless, senseless globe-trotter.

Do I hear a man speaking, or is it a boy, frightened by a bogy?

I reckon it out that he's a figurehead—just a bogy name to frighten the children with.