boyg

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Norwegian Bøyg

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Noun

boyg (uncountable)

  1. Formless hindrances personified as an enemy
    • 1936, John Dos Passos, The Big Money, Random House, pages 93–94:
      He fought the boyg all right, pedantry, routine, timeservers at office desks, trustees, collegepresidents, the plump flunkies of the ruling businessmen, all the good jobs kept for yesmen, never enough money, every broadening hope thwarted.

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