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variants:
also bogies
plural of bogey
Synonyms of bogeys
1
something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason
- math and math tests have long been bogeys for many students
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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 bogeys
- apparitions,
- familiar spirits,
- ghosts,
- hants
- [dialect],
- haunts
- [chiefly dialect],
- materializations,
- phantasms
- (also fantasms),
- phantoms,
- poltergeists,
- shades,
- shadows,
- specters
- (or spectres),
- spirits,
- spooks,
- sprites,
- visions,
- visitants,
- wraiths
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“Bogeys.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogeys. Accessed 24 Oct. 2021.
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