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Noun

1. 1
   A container for a spiritualist’s accessories.

   "Yeats, like AE, though not so fatuously, stood for the whirlpool, Madame Blavatsky and the yogibogeybox."

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"Yeats, like AE, though not so fatuously, stood for the whirlpool, Madame Blavatsky and the yogibogeybox."

Etymology

Compound of yogi + bogey + box. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses.

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