2. Verb. (third-person singular of boogie) ¹
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Definition of Boogies
1. boogie [v] - See also: boogie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boogies
Literary usage of Boogies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson (1916)
"said boogies. He stared at this bolder spirit with startled admiration. ...
boogies wavered a tremulous moment. " I'm going with you," he managed at last. ..."
2. Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings by Georgina Frederica Jackson, Charlotte Sophia Burne (1883)
"... the boogies. ' So they gotten thar things away a feow at a time, ... an' lef
the boogies i' the empy 'ouse. So atter they wun come to the new place, ..."
3. Practical treatise on diseases of the urinary and generative organs in both by William Acton (1858)
"... on wax bougies—gum elastic boogies the best—inflexible or hard instrumenta—flexible
ivory bougies—whalebone boogies— appreciation of them—observations ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"urine, and both required, in the first instance, the smallest-sized boogies,
which I experienced some difficulty in introducing. ..."
5. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"James was always Obedient, and when his Mamma told him not to Help an old Blind
Man across the street or Go into a Dark Room where the boogies were, ..."
6. Specimens of Early English: With Introductions, Notes, and Glossarial Index by Richard Morris (1887)
"2224. boogies, the moneys. 2227. 'Very great sorrow is to me become ' (befallen).
2232. ' Death and sorrow fall upon me.' 223;, 6. ..."
7. A Narrative of the Negro by Leila Pendleton (1912)
"The chief officers arc called " dibbles," " boogies," or " devils," and they
dress in a very fantastic manner. Over the head and face is worn a hideous mask ..."
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