boyg

B3O1Y4G2
/bɔɪɡ/

noun

Formless hindrances personified as an enemy

OriginNorwegian Bokmål bøyg →
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Meanings

nounboyg (uncountable)
  1. uncountableFormless hindrances personified as an enemy

    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.

    1936, John Dos Passos, The Big Money, Random House, pages 93–94

Origin

  1. Norwegian Bokmålbøyg
  2. Englishboyg

From Norwegian Bokmål bøyg.

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MLA

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Chicago

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