See boogy on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "boogyman"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "boogies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boogy (plural boogies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1947, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, page 566:",
"text": "Strike a match, the boogy's nuts.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1967, Jerome Charyn, The Man who Grew Younger, and Other Stories, page 45:",
"text": "I wouldn't give a shit if he was a boogy even, nobody's got style like Joe DiMaggio.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024, Rudolph Fisher, The Walls of Jericho, page 104:",
"text": "And what does the hard guy do the hardest boogy in Harlem?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"A black person."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-noun-phjQcPNk",
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
],
[
"black",
"black"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1950, Northwestern University on the Air, the Reviewing Stand, page 5:",
"text": "MR. KELLER: Be-bop is a new word for boogy or jazz.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Harry Justin Elam, Robert Alexander, The Fire this Time: African-American Plays for the 21st Century, page 578:",
"text": "The rockin' to the bang bang boogy say up jump the boogy To the rhythm of the boogy the beat",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"A jazzy style of music or dance."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-noun-WN6~WjSx",
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "6 12 12 21 8 8 4 12 12 5 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 9 9 25 6 6 6 10 10 7 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 6 6 37 4 4 8 7 7 8 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1981, Thomas Akare, The Slums, page 59:",
"text": "That it would be after they had come from the boogy.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"A dance where boogy music is played."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-noun-lKqAykfC",
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
],
[
"dance",
"dance"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1901, Irving Bacheller, D'ri and I, page 149:",
"text": "\"The boogy light!\" D'ri whispered. \"There't goes ag'in!\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1986, LiNQ. - Volumes 14-15, page 50:",
"text": "\"Ya mean, yah ain't no boogy? \" he jabbered. There was that sneaky, breathy laugh again. \" Of course I'm not a boogy! \"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Orson Scott Card, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
"text": "\"I make a boogy for my boy-baby,” she say. Fat Fox laugh, he know she lie. “Ain't no blackfeather boogy. I never heared of such a thing.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of bogey",
"A goblin or hostile supernatural being."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-noun-ZoRoB~Zb",
"links": [
[
"bogey",
"bogey#English"
],
[
"goblin",
"goblin"
],
[
"hostile",
"hostile"
],
[
"supernatural",
"supernatural"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Thomas E. Despres, The Cultural Connection, page 91:",
"text": "The kids were laughing at him so he shot back and told her, \"Well, Miss Ortíz, with all due respect, I was taught that boogy is something that comes out of your nose and poopy is something that a dog does on the street.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of bogey",
"A piece of dried mucus in or removed from the nostril."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-noun-Tn1~O0~5",
"links": [
[
"bogey",
"bogey#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1967, Ronald Ribman, Harry, Noon and Night, page 21:",
"text": "SOLDIER . There ain't nobody doing the dirty boogy.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Sexual intercourse"
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-noun-NZgAjSxO"
}
],
"word": "boogy"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "more boogy",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most boogy",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boogy (comparative more boogy, superlative most boogy)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1967, Audrey Lillian Barker, The Middling, page 64:",
"text": "Boogy questions get boogy answers .",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Suspect; dodgy."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-adj-x61z0Jhp",
"links": [
[
"Suspect",
"suspect"
],
[
"dodgy",
"dodgy"
]
]
}
],
"word": "boogy"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "boogies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "boogying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "boogied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "boogied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boogy (third-person singular simple present boogies, present participle boogying, simple past and past participle boogied)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1976, John Schultz, Angels in My Oven, page 131:",
"text": "How was he supposed to boogy with one acoustic ?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1980, Elmore Leonard, Gold Coast, page 58:",
"text": "He could hear the hi-fi going next door, Lesley boogying around the apartment to the Bee-Gees, ignoring her aunt, who was a little deaf.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Alan Cowell, Killing the Wizards, page 225:",
"text": "South Africans of any skin color were all out there on the floor and had decisions to make: not whether to boogy, but whom to boogy with.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Stuart Woods, Indecent Exposure, page 88:",
"text": "\"There will be a big band, so you will have to dance with me.\" \"And I shall.\" \"No boogying, don't worry.\" “Do you think me incapable of boogying?”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Jed Pitman, The Invisible Man:",
"text": "Are they boogying and do they know how?' asks Johnny.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"To dance to boogie music; to get down."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-verb-nR67eGlB",
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
],
[
"dance",
"dance"
],
[
"get down",
"get down"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1986, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance, Motor Carrier Safety, page 167:",
"text": "There I was in the middle of the night boogying down the avenue and suddenly there was a cow and he boogied right over and there was yellow cake everywhere.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Robert Swindells, Wrecked, page 9:",
"text": "And talking of dopes, why don't you boogy on over to Thresher for a refresher.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Chris Taylor, Elizabeth, page 23:",
"text": "Well I'm boogying around there and this panther ain't crossed my mind that it'd be this panther that come back.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"To move, travel, or exit; to sashay."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-verb-UnD5GaNr",
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"travel",
"travel"
],
[
"exit",
"exit"
],
[
"sashay",
"sashay"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012, John Walker ·, How to Score Girls:",
"text": "This book was originally written in the \"boogy down\" year of 1974 – right in the middle of the 1970's when the dating scene finally broke free from the restrictions of the \"Ozzie & Harriet\" 1950's and the unwashed \"Love Bead\" 1960's.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024, Debra Clopton, The Trouble with a Valentine’s Cowboy:",
"text": "Boogying with him would be fun.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To have sex."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-verb-z2n28Vuc"
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Christopher Ransom, The People Next Door:",
"text": "He knew they were. boogying the beer.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bogart."
],
"id": "en-boogy-en-verb-230BK40s",
"links": [
[
"bogart",
"bogart"
]
]
}
],
"word": "boogy"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "boogyman"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "boogies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boogy (plural boogies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1947, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, page 566:",
"text": "Strike a match, the boogy's nuts.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1967, Jerome Charyn, The Man who Grew Younger, and Other Stories, page 45:",
"text": "I wouldn't give a shit if he was a boogy even, nobody's got style like Joe DiMaggio.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024, Rudolph Fisher, The Walls of Jericho, page 104:",
"text": "And what does the hard guy do the hardest boogy in Harlem?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"A black person."
],
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
],
[
"black",
"black"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1950, Northwestern University on the Air, the Reviewing Stand, page 5:",
"text": "MR. KELLER: Be-bop is a new word for boogy or jazz.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Harry Justin Elam, Robert Alexander, The Fire this Time: African-American Plays for the 21st Century, page 578:",
"text": "The rockin' to the bang bang boogy say up jump the boogy To the rhythm of the boogy the beat",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"A jazzy style of music or dance."
],
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1981, Thomas Akare, The Slums, page 59:",
"text": "That it would be after they had come from the boogy.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"A dance where boogy music is played."
],
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
],
[
"dance",
"dance"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1901, Irving Bacheller, D'ri and I, page 149:",
"text": "\"The boogy light!\" D'ri whispered. \"There't goes ag'in!\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1986, LiNQ. - Volumes 14-15, page 50:",
"text": "\"Ya mean, yah ain't no boogy? \" he jabbered. There was that sneaky, breathy laugh again. \" Of course I'm not a boogy! \"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Orson Scott Card, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
"text": "\"I make a boogy for my boy-baby,” she say. Fat Fox laugh, he know she lie. “Ain't no blackfeather boogy. I never heared of such a thing.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of bogey",
"A goblin or hostile supernatural being."
],
"links": [
[
"bogey",
"bogey#English"
],
[
"goblin",
"goblin"
],
[
"hostile",
"hostile"
],
[
"supernatural",
"supernatural"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Thomas E. Despres, The Cultural Connection, page 91:",
"text": "The kids were laughing at him so he shot back and told her, \"Well, Miss Ortíz, with all due respect, I was taught that boogy is something that comes out of your nose and poopy is something that a dog does on the street.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of bogey",
"A piece of dried mucus in or removed from the nostril."
],
"links": [
[
"bogey",
"bogey#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1967, Ronald Ribman, Harry, Noon and Night, page 21:",
"text": "SOLDIER . There ain't nobody doing the dirty boogy.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Sexual intercourse"
]
}
],
"word": "boogy"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "more boogy",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most boogy",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boogy (comparative more boogy, superlative most boogy)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1967, Audrey Lillian Barker, The Middling, page 64:",
"text": "Boogy questions get boogy answers .",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Suspect; dodgy."
],
"links": [
[
"Suspect",
"suspect"
],
[
"dodgy",
"dodgy"
]
]
}
],
"word": "boogy"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "boogies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "boogying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "boogied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "boogied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "boogy (third-person singular simple present boogies, present participle boogying, simple past and past participle boogied)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1976, John Schultz, Angels in My Oven, page 131:",
"text": "How was he supposed to boogy with one acoustic ?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1980, Elmore Leonard, Gold Coast, page 58:",
"text": "He could hear the hi-fi going next door, Lesley boogying around the apartment to the Bee-Gees, ignoring her aunt, who was a little deaf.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Alan Cowell, Killing the Wizards, page 225:",
"text": "South Africans of any skin color were all out there on the floor and had decisions to make: not whether to boogy, but whom to boogy with.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Stuart Woods, Indecent Exposure, page 88:",
"text": "\"There will be a big band, so you will have to dance with me.\" \"And I shall.\" \"No boogying, don't worry.\" “Do you think me incapable of boogying?”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Jed Pitman, The Invisible Man:",
"text": "Are they boogying and do they know how?' asks Johnny.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"To dance to boogie music; to get down."
],
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
],
[
"dance",
"dance"
],
[
"get down",
"get down"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1986, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance, Motor Carrier Safety, page 167:",
"text": "There I was in the middle of the night boogying down the avenue and suddenly there was a cow and he boogied right over and there was yellow cake everywhere.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Robert Swindells, Wrecked, page 9:",
"text": "And talking of dopes, why don't you boogy on over to Thresher for a refresher.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Chris Taylor, Elizabeth, page 23:",
"text": "Well I'm boogying around there and this panther ain't crossed my mind that it'd be this panther that come back.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of boogie",
"To move, travel, or exit; to sashay."
],
"links": [
[
"boogie",
"boogie#English"
],
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"travel",
"travel"
],
[
"exit",
"exit"
],
[
"sashay",
"sashay"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012, John Walker ·, How to Score Girls:",
"text": "This book was originally written in the \"boogy down\" year of 1974 – right in the middle of the 1970's when the dating scene finally broke free from the restrictions of the \"Ozzie & Harriet\" 1950's and the unwashed \"Love Bead\" 1960's.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024, Debra Clopton, The Trouble with a Valentine’s Cowboy:",
"text": "Boogying with him would be fun.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To have sex."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Christopher Ransom, The People Next Door:",
"text": "He knew they were. boogying the beer.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bogart."
],
"links": [
[
"bogart",
"bogart"
]
]
}
],
"word": "boogy"
}
Download raw JSONL data for boogy meaning in All languages combined (8.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.