bogies

We have seen small sea-serpents, and there is no reason why there might not be big ones, but as to what you call bogies and ghosts, for goodness sake throw over all those silly superstitious notions. "

Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870

I reckon I could press that puppy clear through the desk it’s mounted on when certain bogies from my past trotted through the viewfinder.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Chill the fuck out. 2009

The middle class group has been scared into support of these governments by the very careful exploitation of certain bogies.

Is Democracy Outworn 1937

So, NORTHCOM will be testing response and "missile defense" which likely means a number of military jets in the air, and "bogies" on air controller's screens.

"TOPOFF 4" and Vigilant Shield: October 15-19 2007

-- Russian tallow in saucers, oil of birch, flowers of sulphur, hellebore, pepper, tobacco, are said to be "bogies," the last especially, to the Dermestes beetles and their cousin, Anthrenus museorum.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

He employed boys because they were cheap and he had a lot of rough work, and they could get under floors and "bogies" with their pots and brushes, and do all the "priming" and paint the trucks.

Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson 1894

Recruited from the strongest and healthiest of the working-classes, it is above all indispensable that the Chinese letter-carrier should not be afraid of any ghostly enemy, such as bogies or devils.

Historic China, and other sketches Herbert Allen Giles 1890

The burden of Mr. Onslow's prophecy was the unfairness of the trial; and his "bogies" were detectives, just as Mr. Buckingham's were Jesuits.

Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869

It's true that a few A-4s were flown by the Navy Fighter Weapons School at Miramar, California-but they played the role of "bogies," which the fighter pilots in training were supposed to intercept and shoot down.

Free Democracy 2008

It's true that a few A-4s were flown by the Navy Fighter Weapons School at Miramar, California-but they played the role of "bogies," which the fighter pilots in training were supposed to intercept and shoot down.

Free Democracy 2008