Definition of Bogyism

1. behavior characteristic of a bogy [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bogyism

bogs down
bogs off
bogsucker
bogsuckers
bogtrotter
bogtrotters
bogtrotting
bogue
bogus
bogusly
bogusness
bogusnesses
bogwood
bogwoods
bogy
bogyism (current term)
bogyisms
bogyman
bogymen
bogywoman
boh
bohdanowiczite
bohea
boheas
bohemian
bohemianism
bohemianisms
bohemians
bohemias
bohemium

Literary usage of Bogyism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham, 1854-1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Allingham (1897)
"But such things are quite impossible to me at the pitch of brutal bogyism at which I have arrived. ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"... large-headed, round-eyed children mutely and distrustfully regard the white man, who musi embody as much in their eyes some notion of uncanny bogyism as ..."

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