Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Bogardus A surname. bogart An obnoxious, selfish and overbearing person; an attention hog. Bogartian Of or relating to Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American actor who became a cultural icon through his performances in 1940s film noir. Bogata A village in Dofteana, Bacău County, Romania. Bogatynia A town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. bogatyr A medieval heroic warrior in Kievan Rus, akin to the Western European knight-errant. bogbean The buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata). bogberry The cranberry. Bogda A commune of Timiș County, Romania. Bogdan A male given name from the Slavic languages. Bogdana A village in Ștefan cel Mare, Bacău County, Romania. Bogdanci A town in southeastern North Macedonia. Bogdand A village and commune of Satu Mare County, Romania. Bogdania Moldavia, Great Wallachia, the territory between Transylvania and the Dniester north of Wallachia and south of Lithuania, conquered by the Ottomans in 1512 Bogdanoff A surname from the Slavic languages. Bogdanov A transliteration of the Macedonian surname Богданов (Bogdanov). Bogdanovci A municipality of Croatia. Bogdanovian Of or relating to Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), Russian physician, philosopher, writer, and revolutionary. bogdanovite An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing copper, gold, iron, lead, and tellurium. Bogdanski A surname from Polish. Bogden A surname originating as a patronymic. bogdown A situation in which something becomes stuck or bogged down. Boge A surname from Norwegian. Bogee A locality in the Lithgow council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia. Boger A surname. Bogert A surname. bogey A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature. bogeyism Devilry; supernatural matters involving evil forces. bogeyland Part of the terrain of a golf course, or (figurative) a situation, that leads to a player achieving no better than a bogey. bogeyman A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories. bogeyperson A bogeyman of any gender. bogeywoman A female bogeyman. Boggabilla A locality in the Gwydir council area and the Moree Plains council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia. Boggabri A town in the Gunnedah council area and the Narrabri council area, northern New South Wales, Australia. Boggan A surname. boggard A bogey: a ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature, especially a small local spirit haunting gloomy places or the scenes of violence. boggart A shapeshifting monster that feeds on fear. bogged Stuck; unable to progress; having been bogged down. bogger Someone associated with or who works in a bog. Boggess A surname from Middle English. boggily In a boggy way. bogginess The state or quality of being boggy. bogging Stinking; disgusting. Boggio A surname. Boggis A surname. boggish Boggy. boggle (literally or figuratively) to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle. bogglebo A bugbear (imaginary fearsome creature). boggler One who boggles. bogglesome Characterised or marked by boggling; mind-boggling. boggling Stupefying; mind-boggling. bogglingly In a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree. bogglish Uncertain, doubtful; skittish boggo bog-standard; ordinary; unexceptional Boggs A surname. Boggsian Of or relating to Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015), American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. boggsite An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, and sodium. Boggus A surname. boggy Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. boghaunter Either of two species of dragonfly of the genus Williamsonia, family Corduliidae. boghole A depression in waterlogged soil. Boghom A West Chadic language spoken in Nigeria. Boghossian A surname from Armenian, equivalent to English Paulson boghouse An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. bogie A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley. bogieman The operator of a bogie or hand-truck. Bogijiab Synonym of Akabea. bogla An egret. bogland Land that is predominantly boggy; marshland. boglander One who lives in the bogland. bogle A goblin, imp, bogeyman, bugbear or similar a frightful being or phantom. bogledom The realm or sphere of bogles (frightful beings). bogles A town in Grenada. bogless Without a bog. boglet A small patch of boggy ground. boglike Resembling or characteristic of a bog. Boglin Any of a family of grotesque rubbery hand puppets. Bognar A surname. Bognor The English town of Bognor Regis. BOGO A member of the Blin people. bogof An item promoted in this way. bogolan A hand-made Malian cotton fabric, traditionally dyed with fermented mud. bogolon A collective excitation, in a Bose-Einstein condensate, that has some characteristics of a particle. Bogolub A surname. Bogomaz A surname from Ukrainian. Bogomil A member of a dualist Christian sect which flourished in the Balkans during the 10th to 15th centuries and was characterized by resistance to the state and church authorities. Bogomilian Of or relating to the Bogomils. Bogomilianism Synonym of Bogomilism. Bogomilism The beliefs and practices of the Bogomils. Bogomilist An adherent of Bogomilism; a Bogomil. BogoMIPS A crude informal measurement of CPU speed, made by the Linux kernel while booting and used to calibrate an internal busy loop. Bogomol A surname bogon The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon. bogong Synonym of bogong moth. Bogor A city in West Java, Indonesia. Bogoria A village in Sandomierz County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland. bogorol Any of a group of peptide antibiotics present in some marine bacteria bogoroside A particular steroid glycoside. Bogosav A male given name from the Slavic languages. bogosi chieftainship Bogosian A surname from Armenian. bogosity The state or degree of being bogus. Bogoslav A male given name from the Slavic languages. bogosort An intentionally poor sorting algorithm that operates by randomly permuting the elements repeatedly until they happen to fall into the correct order. Bogost A surname. Bogotan A native or inhabitant of Bogota, Colombia. Bogotazo The riots that followed the 1948 assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. bogotic Exhibiting bogosity; bogus, bad, incorrect. bogotify To make bogus, incorrect, or broken. Bogra A city in Bangladesh. bogracs A Hungarian cooking pot made of metal. bograt A junior fighter pilot. bogrush Any of several sedges of the genus Schoenus. Bogside A neighbourhood in the city of Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. bogslide A rapid movement of saturated peat in (or from and moving out of) a bog, similar to a landslide or mudslide. bogsucker The American woodcock. Bogtong A barangay of Busuanga, Palawan, Philippines. bogtrotter One who lives in boggy countryside; (derogatory) one of the lowest class of Irish. bogtrotting Living among bogs. Bogucki A surname from Polish. bogue A species of seabream fish native to the eastern Atlantic (Boops boops). Bogumil A male given name from the Slavic languages. bogus Counterfeit or fake; not genuine. bogusly In a bogus way; phonily. bogusness The quality of being bogus. bogwera A traditional ceremony in Botswana, initiating a boy into manhood. bogwood The dark, shiny wood of trees, especially oaks, dug up from peat bogs, sometimes used for making ornaments. bogwort Any member of the species Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry or whortleberry plant). boh An exclamation used to startle or frighten. Bohac A surname. Bohai Synonym of Bohai Sea, a gulf of the Yellow Sea in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. bohaiornithid Any extinct bird (or bird relative) of the family Bohaiornithidae. Bohairic The Coptic dialect of the western Nile delta and Alexandria, used as a widespread standard dialect in the second millennium CE Bohall A surname. Bohan A surname from Irish. Bohanan A surname from Irish. Bohannan A surname from Irish. Bohannon A surname from Irish. Bohanon A surname from Irish. Bohdan A silrada in Rakhiv Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, disestablished in 2020. Bohdanivka A neighborhood of Lviv, Ukraine bohdanowiczite A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral lead gray mineral containing bismuth, selenium, and silver. bohea A black tea from Fujian, China. bohemamine A component of bohemic acid, with chemical formula C₁₄H₁₈N₂O₃. bohemia A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers. bohemian A person, especially an artist or writer, who lives an unconventional or nonconformist lifestyle. bohemianism A Bohemian lifestyle. bohemianly In a bohemian manner. bohemine A purine derivative that inhibits cyclin-dependent kinases - 2-(3-hydroxypropylamino)-6-benzylamino-9-isopropylpurine Bohemish Bohemian; from Bohemia