Bogy [noun]

And I had nothing to eat, and I was so frightened—for she said there was a bogy there—that I nearly died.

And throughout the trip he continued to regard me as a species of bogy-man, while Ryborg he considered a most reputable traveler.

Shell fire, speaking generally, is the "Bogy of Battle" to those not accustomed to it.

But he did the job, and this bogy-man scare of his is the weak cunning of a disordered mind to divert suspicion.

Syme remembered those wild woes of yesterday as one remembers being afraid of Bogy in childhood.

I don't understand your motive, and I'd rather not guess at it; but I'm not a child to be scared by a bogy.

Bogy, now, was a character one did not care to think about too near bed-time.

Such an admonition, he says, is "morally about on a level with telling a naughty child that a bogy is coming to fetch it away."

And really Tom did not know; but the suspicious old bogy would not believe him.

In Baconian language, this bogy may be called an "idol of the market-place," since it rests upon confusion of terms.