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boyg

/bɔɪɡ/

boyg noun: formless hindrances personified as an enemy.

Noun

boyg (uncountable)

  1. Formless 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 of boyg

Norwegian Bøyg

Questions about boyg

What does boyg mean?
Boyg means formless hindrances personified as an enemy.
What part of speech is boyg?
Boyg is a noun.
How do you pronounce boyg?
Boyg is pronounced /bɔɪɡ/.

Words near boyg in the dictionary

  1. boyfs
  2. boyfu
  3. boyfucker
  4. boyfuckers
  5. boyfus
  6. boyg
  7. boygod
  8. boyhood
  9. boyhoods
  10. boyier
  11. boyiest

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