boyg
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[edit]Norwegian Bøyg
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[edit]boyg (uncountable)
- 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[sic], 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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