boyg
English
Etymology
Norwegian Bøyg
Noun
boyg (uncountable)
- Formless hindrances personified as an enemy
- 1936, John Dos Passos, The Big Money, Random House, pages 93-94
- He fought the boyg all right, pedantry, routine, timeservers at office desks, trustees, collegepresidents[sic], the plump flunkies of the ruling businessmen, all the good jobs kept for yesmen, never enough money, every broadening hope thwarted.
- 1936, John Dos Passos, The Big Money, Random House, pages 93-94
Translations
Anagrams
- bogy, go by, go-by, goby