bogy

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Lopez-Chacarra overcame a triple bogy on the long par-4 seventh and tied Sargent for the lead with a short birdie on the par-4 15th.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2022

In the 1950s, 3D was wheeled out to upstage television, the industry bogy of that era.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2010

Though the accusation is routinely made in many campaigns, the bossism bogy rankled Goldberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reason for the fears about churches accepting federal funds is that worrisome ecclesiastical bogy, Erastianism*�state control of the church.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old-maid nature is traceable in me in this further respect, that I feel a perfectly unendurable terror of ghosts, and go on like some little child whom its nurse has frightened with a bogy.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm