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yogibogeybox

yogibogeybox noun: a container for a spiritualist’s accessories.

Noun

yogibogeybox (plural yogibogeyboxes)

  1. A container for a spiritualist’s accessories.
    • Yeats, like AE, though not so fatuously, stood for the whirlpool, Madame Blavatsky and the yogibogeybox.1968, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, Urgent Copy, page 63
    • For him the yogibogeybox could offer nothing so good as the vegetable world.1972, Richard Ellmann Goldsmith, Ulysses on the Liffey, →ISBN, page 16

Forms of yogibogeybox

pluralyogibogeyboxes

Origin of yogibogeybox

Compound of yogi + bogey + box. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses.

Questions about yogibogeybox

What does yogibogeybox mean?
Yogibogeybox means a container for a spiritualist’s accessories.
What part of speech is yogibogeybox?
Yogibogeybox is a noun.
What is the plural of yogibogeybox?
The plural of yogibogeybox is yogibogeyboxes.

Words near yogibogeybox in the dictionary

  1. yoghurts
  2. yoghurty
  3. yogi
  4. yogi-ing
  5. Yogi-ism
  6. yogibogeybox
  7. yogibogeyboxes
  8. yogic
  9. yogic flying
  10. yogic marriage
  11. yogic marriages

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