yogi-bogeyn.

Brit.

/ˈjəʊɡɪbəʊɡi/, U.S.

/ˈjoʊɡiˌboʊɡi/

Forms: 1900s yogi-bogi, 1900s– yogey-bogey, 1900s– yogi-bogey, 1900s– yogi-bogy.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yogi n., bogy n.¹

Etymology: < yogi n. + bogy n.¹

depreciative. rare.

1. A disparaging term for: a person who follows or believes in spiritualism, mysticism, clairvoyance, etc.; a mystic; a seer.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > false > person

pseudo-mystic1852

navel-contemplator1856

yogi-bogey1901

1885 Amer. Reg. 6 June (London ed.) 11/3 Europeans and Americans who believe, or affect to believe, in the magnetical powers of Yogis and Bogies.]

1901 Golf Illustr. 28 June 267/1 You must have studied second sight, or crystal gazing from some old fakir or yogi-bogi.

1937 E. C. Large Sugar in Air vi. 70 Is this some sort of gag, or is he really a Yogi-Bogy?

2. The beliefs or practices of such a person considered dismissively as misguided or fraudulent.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > false

mysticism1722

pseudo-mysticism1882

yogi-bogey1943

1943 ‘G. Orwell’ in Time & Tide 17 Apr. 326/1 Many of his [sc. Yeats's] best passages are hardly intelligible unless one knows something about the yogey-bogey on which they are founded.

1945 D. Goldring Nineteen Twenties i. vii. 80 The scene of this unusual story is laid in Kent and St. John's Wood and the dominating element in it may be described as ‘Yogi-bogey’, astrology, clairvoyance.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as yogi-bogey brigade, yogi-bogey mysticism, etc.Recorded earliest in yogibogeybox n. at Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 184 Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers. Isis Unveiled. Their Pali book we tried to pawn... He thrones an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, their oversoul, mahamahatma.

1936 Criterion Jan. 334 To make the old position look important with yogi-bogey word-worship.

1961 Canad. Sat. Night 14 Oct. 36/3 A live-better-eclectically amalgam of Christian heresy, yogi-bogey mysticism and Great Thoughts of the sages and ages.

1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing (1993) 233 The yogi-bogy brigade hummed and hawed about the ‘itness’ of existence.

C2.

yogibogeybox n. A room or place in which spiritualism is practised or studied; (hence figurative) spiritualism as a philosophy or belief.Only with allusion to quot. 1922 at Compounds 1.In quot. 1957 perhaps with reference to the equipment or paraphernalia of a spiritualist.

ΚΠ

1922Yogibogeybox [see Compounds 1].

1957 ELH 24 50 No one—and especially no artist—can rely on communications relayed through the ‘yogibogeybox’.

1977 Sewanee Rev. 85 265 The rival turns out to be only Mary Baker Eddy, in whose Boston yogibogeybox Walter had at last found a spiritual home.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	yogi-bogey
释义	yogi-bogeyn. Brit. /ˈjəʊɡɪbəʊɡi/, U.S. /ˈjoʊɡiˌboʊɡi/ Forms: 1900s yogi-bogi, 1900s– yogey-bogey, 1900s– yogi-bogey, 1900s– yogi-bogy. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yogi n., bogy n.¹ Etymology: < yogi n. + bogy n.¹ depreciative. rare. 1. A disparaging term for: a person who follows or believes in spiritualism, mysticism, clairvoyance, etc.; a mystic; a seer. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > false > person pseudo-mystic1852 navel-contemplator1856 yogi-bogey1901 1885 Amer. Reg. 6 June (London ed.) 11/3 Europeans and Americans who believe, or affect to believe, in the magnetical powers of Yogis and Bogies.] 1901 Golf Illustr. 28 June 267/1 You must have studied second sight, or crystal gazing from some old fakir or yogi-bogi. 1937 E. C. Large Sugar in Air vi. 70 Is this some sort of gag, or is he really a Yogi-Bogy? 2. The beliefs or practices of such a person considered dismissively as misguided or fraudulent. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > false mysticism1722 pseudo-mysticism1882 yogi-bogey1943 1943 ‘G. Orwell’ in Time & Tide 17 Apr. 326/1 Many of his [sc. Yeats's] best passages are hardly intelligible unless one knows something about the yogey-bogey on which they are founded. 1945 D. Goldring Nineteen Twenties i. vii. 80 The scene of this unusual story is laid in Kent and St. John's Wood and the dominating element in it may be described as ‘Yogi-bogey’, astrology, clairvoyance. Compounds C1. General attributive, as yogi-bogey brigade, yogi-bogey mysticism, etc.Recorded earliest in yogibogeybox n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 184 Yogibogeybox in Dawson chambers. Isis Unveiled. Their Pali book we tried to pawn... He thrones an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, their oversoul, mahamahatma. 1936 Criterion Jan. 334 To make the old position look important with yogi-bogey word-worship. 1961 Canad. Sat. Night 14 Oct. 36/3 A live-better-eclectically amalgam of Christian heresy, yogi-bogey mysticism and Great Thoughts of the sages and ages. 1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing (1993) 233 The yogi-bogy brigade hummed and hawed about the ‘itness’ of existence. C2. yogibogeybox n. A room or place in which spiritualism is practised or studied; (hence figurative) spiritualism as a philosophy or belief.Only with allusion to quot. 1922 at Compounds 1.In quot. 1957 perhaps with reference to the equipment or paraphernalia of a spiritualist. ΚΠ 1922Yogibogeybox [see Compounds 1]. 1957 ELH 24 50 No one—and especially no artist—can rely on communications relayed through the ‘yogibogeybox’. 1977 Sewanee Rev. 85 265 The rival turns out to be only Mary Baker Eddy, in whose Boston yogibogeybox Walter had at last found a spiritual home. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1901
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