Lexicographical Neighbors of Boogy
Literary usage of Boogy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings by Georgina Frederica Jackson, Charlotte Sophia Burne (1883)
"The Shropshire ' boogy' is identical with the Yorkshire ' Bogie,' with the ...
(GFJ) See boogy in Shropshire Word-Book ; also note on the Phooka in CROFTON ..."
2. The Technical World Magazine (1909)
"Look out behind you at the boogy Man of Socialism, while fat and smiling Jack,
... BUT, as I was about to remark, when the boogy Man scared me, ..."
3. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1915)
"boogy " dried mucus in nose), butter, button, cake, candle, candy, cap, car,
cellar, chain, chalk, chamber chamber-pot), cheek, chicken "choo-choc train of ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1793)
"PLANTING boogy OR MORAS- 9Y SOILS. For the belt experiments to »(email) ihe
advantages «if planting boggy or morally lull* i the gold medal, ..."
5. Sharps and Flats by Eugene Field (1900)
"Where little Quincy Browning slept, This boogy flew without delay, And down the
chimney-flue he crept To steal that pretty child away. ..."
6. The American Metropolis: From Knickerbocker Days to the Present Time; New by Frank Moss (1897)
"Mr. Beekman filled his cup with joy when he married that petite damsel, Catherine
Van boogy. He was the original perpetual office-holder. ..."
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