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
It certainly will never be again the bogy or oracle as which it had so long figured in our elections.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Though the accusation is routinely made in many campaigns, the bossism bogy rankled Goldberg.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.