Synonyms for bogy
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : boh-gee; for 1, 2 also boo g-ee, boo-gee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈboʊ gi; for 1, 2 also ˈbʊg i, ˈbu gi |
Top 10 synonyms for bogy Other synonyms for the word bogy
Définition of bogy
- As in bugaboo : noun fear
- As in bugbear : noun ghost
- As in chimera : noun dream, fantasy
- And I had nothing to eat, and I was so frightened—for she said there was a bogy there—that I nearly died.
- Extract from : « Sue, A Little Heroine » by L. T. Meade
- Yet in the farmer's eye it was "shiftless" (the New Englander's bogy).
- Extract from : « Little Brothers of the Air » by Olive Thorne Miller
- Do I hear a man speaking, or is it a boy, frightened by a bogy?
- Extract from : « A Chinese Command » by Harry Collingwood
- Bogy, distributing his precious belongings in bits about the globe.
- Extract from : « Criminal Types » by V. M. Masten
- Bogy, the personification of the aimless, senseless globe-trotter.
- Extract from : « Criminal Types » by V. M. Masten
- Here we are, safe and sound, and met no bogy, thank goodness!
- Extract from : « The School by the Sea » by Angela Brazil
- These machines must be safe to ride in, but the bogy of radiation was frightening.
- Extract from : « The Time Traders » by Andre Norton
- The fear of ill-luck, in other words, is the bogy that haunts him night and day.
- Extract from : « Anthropology » by Robert Marett
- That he is a fable invented by the Inner Ring, a bogy to frighten us with.
- Extract from : « The Secret Adversary » by Agatha Christie
- I reckon it out that he's a figurehead—just a bogy name to frighten the children with.
- Extract from : « The Secret Adversary » by Agatha Christie
Antonyms for bogy
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