boyg

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Norwegian Bøyg

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boyg (uncountable)

Formless hindrances personified as an enemy
- 1936, John Dos Passos, The Big Money, Random House, pages 93–94:
  He fought the boyg all right, pedantry, routine, timeservers at office desks, trustees, collegepresidents^[sic], the plump flunkies of the ruling businessmen, all the good jobs kept for yesmen, never enough money, every broadening hope thwarted.

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bogy, go by, go-by, goby

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