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

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

Huey Long climaxed the municipal primary campaign with an hysterical radio tirade against his opponents, finally bursting into parodied song: Anti-Long, little bogy, anti-Long, little bogy, anti-Lo-o-o-ong!

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