bogy

[ UK /bˈə‍ʊɡi/ ]
NOUN
  1. an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
  2. an evil spirit
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How To Use bogy In A Sentence

  • Although, as we shall see, Ryle says a good deal more about our mental concepts, it cannot be said that he seriously addresses this question and thereby slays the bogy of mechanism.
  • Do not let the bogy of behaviourism scare you off observing these features; I am not asking you to believe that ‘to see’ is itself a word for a kind of behaviour.
  • Well, Jim, " he said, " Bogy broke his chain, came over and killed Bounce.
  • America's present day myths (Our Health Care System is the best those inferiors that can't make it are the cause of our being robbed of our rights, Obama is a foreigner, Sotomayor is a racist, if we drill domestically we will be OK) are precipitant arguments which address the needs of those who have to focus on outside bogy men. Paranoia, Sanity and Right Wing Violence
  • But, all of a sudden, somebody shut off the steam below, and the hole was left empty in an instant: and then down rushed the water into the hole, in such a whirlpool that the bogy spun round and round as fast as a teetotum. The Water Babies
  • So Ryle's fundamental target is not the Cartesian hypothesis of the ghost in the machine: it is ‘the bogy of mechanism’, mistaken fear of which leads people to embrace the Cartesian hypothesis.
  • Pagans mocked the notion as a bogy to frighten people into the Church.
  • Inflation is the bogy of many governments.
  • Bogy was the next-door neighbors' English bulldog. Normally he was linked by a chain to a wire that stretched about 100 feet across their backyard.
  • This is where the vulgar ‘intellectuals’ and slogan-mongers start talking about the bogy of ‘economic rationalism’.
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