Thesaurus / bogies
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synonyms for bogies
- apprehension
- bogey
- bogy
- boogeyman
- bugaboo
- dread
- fear
- goblin
- gremlin
- hobgoblin
- loup-garou
- ogre
- problem
- scare
- specter
- terror
- threat
- wraith
- bête noire
- bogy
- delusion
- fabrication
- fancy
- figment
- hallucination
- illusion
- mirage
- monster
- monstrosity
- snare
- specter
- fata morgana
- fool's paradise
- ignis fatuus
- pipe dream
- gnome
- goblin
- imp
- leprechaun
- bogie
- brownie
- elf
- enchanter
- fay
- genie
- gremlin
- hob
- mermaid
- nymph
- pixie
- puck
- siren
- spirit
- sprite
- sylph
- nisse
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How to use bogies in a sentence
Then, seeing the heaving bogies of the trucks, he leaned over the side of his own car and watched the metal wheels.
THE HERO OF PANAMAF. S. BRERETONShe was caught by camera-bogies on every shopping expedition, at the steeplechases, at the weddings of other people—everywhere.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHESWith unflagging patience he fended bogies from the youngster.
THE SHERIFF'S SONWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINEThis carriage is made on bogies so as to run on rails passing easily round curves of 50 ft. radius.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 586, MARCH 26, 1887VARIOUS"I believe you are afraid of the bogies hidden in this secret chamber, and so don't care to come," says Miss Villiers tauntingly.
THE HAUNTED CHAMBER"THE DUCHESS"In the days of my old bogies, the Chartreuse monks, the woods swarmed with wild boars, hares and foxes.
THE COMPANIONS OF JEHUALEXANDRE DUMAS, PREDefinite is exactly what Miss Fox's bogies are not, and in this they show their own good sense, and hers.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 147, OCTOBER 14, 1914VARIOUSThe drifts, like the kopjes, are the almost unconquerable bogies of South Africa.
SOUTH AFRICA AND THE TRANSVAAL WAR, VOL. IV (OF 6)LOUIS CRESWICKEThe people of the Chao-yang district are great on bogies, and love to talk of spirits and Buddhas.
A HISTORY OF CHINESE LITERATUREHERBERT A. GILESIf you keep bogies and goblins away from children they would make them up for themselves.
TREMENDOUS TRIFLESG. K. CHESTERTON