bogy

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Bogy took his pal down to Tamarisk and proceeded to rip off an impeccable 73 after not playing for two months.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 30, 2020

He had not given 19 hie mistress because be was afraid of being punished by some sort of Holy Bogy, but he had been confronted by two people whom he loved.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

"I want to see what's down there before the Bogy Man gets me."

From Boy Scouts in a Submarine : or, Searching an Ocean Floor by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)

In golf the game is frequently played without this factor, the only competition being with previous records or with the mythical Bogy.

From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Scott, Walter Dill

Bogy, Bogey, bōg′i, n. a goblin: a bugbear or special object of dread, the devil.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various