bogey
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence bug), itself of uncertain origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”); compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat”, older “fear”), Irish bagairt (“threat”), but perhaps the root was borrowed from Germanic. Otherwise from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”); compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge and Alemannic German Böögg (“goblin”, “snot”).
See also Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), Old English pūca (“goblin, mischievous spirit”), Icelandic púki Swedish puke (“small devil, spook”), whence obsolete English puck. Perhaps the Middle English and Welsh words come from a word related to buck and originally referred to a goat-shaped specter. Compare also booger.
The golf sense is from the devil as an imaginary player. The sometimes proscribed conflation with bandit was popularized by the 1986 film Top Gun.
Inflected forms:
form: bogeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bogie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bogeys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bogeying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bogeyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bogeyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bogied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bogied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bogie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bogy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
pos: noun
gloss: The Devil.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
capitalized
often
usually
with-definite-article
gloss: A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: If one man could be said to be responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy, it was a much-decorated British general named Sir Robert Wilson.
Religious divides [among Protestants] went deep — this is evident from the reams of sermons and theological polemics published and avidly read — and only bashing the old bogey of Romism ('No Popery!') could unite Protestants.
England could have been forgiven for believing the fates were against them as they trailed to their League A Group Four opponents, who have become something of a bogey side over the years.
gloss: A police officer.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
pos: noun
gloss: An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
pos: noun
examples: He stood on the sand near the gravel road that passed within two miles of the site of the disintegrated bogey, binoculars hanging on a leather strap from his neck, face streaming with sweat under the brim of his hat... Army and government trucks passed along the road every few minutes, some bearing radiation stickers; many of those outward bound, he knew, carried fragments of the bogey. He was not privy to what they were finding.
gloss: Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
slang
examples: God dammit, Mustang! This is Ghost Rider 117. This bogey is all over me. He's got missile lock on me. Do I have permission to fire?
gloss: The notional opponent of a golfer playing alone.
pos: noun
examples: ‘I was just having a practice round against bogey,’ he said. ‘I caddied for myself, so there were no witnesses.’
gloss: A score of one over par on a hole.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril; a booger.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To make a bogey on (a particular hole).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: bogeyism
bogeyland
bogeyman
bogey team
double bogey
triple bogey
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