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variants:
also bogie
or bogy
Synonyms of bogey
2
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
- the child believed bogeys lived in the closet
Synonyms for bogey
- apparition,
- familiar spirit,
- ghost,
- hant
- [dialect],
- haunt
- [chiefly dialect],
- materialization,
- phantasm
- (also fantasm),
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- shade,
- shadow,
- specter
- (or spectre),
- spirit,
- spook,
- sprite,
- vision,
- visitant,
- wraith
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The first known use of bogey was in 1826
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