bogey

• bogie, bogy

• (US) IPA^(key): /boʊɡi/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəʊɡi/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡi

Probably from a variant of Middle English bugge.

bogey (plural bogeys)

1. (archaic, often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
2. A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
3. (figuratively) A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
   • 2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, page 54:

     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.

4. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, rail transport) Alternative form of bogie, one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; the structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi.
5. (engineering) A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
6. (military slang) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
7. (military slang) Synonym of bandit: a known hostile aircraft.
8. (golf) A score of one over par on a hole.

• (Satan): See Devil
• (hostile supernatural creature): See goblin
• (railcar wheels): railroad truck (US)

• double bogey

bogey (third-person singular simple present bogeys, present participle bogeying, simple past and past participle bogeyed)

1. (golf) To make a bogey.

bogey (plural bogeys)

1. (Britain) Alternative form of booger: a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.

bogey (plural bogeys)

1. (Britain, engineering) A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.

From Dharug bugi- (“to bathe, dive”).

bogey (third-person singular simple present bogeys, present participle bogeying, simple past and past participle bogeyed)

1. (Australia) To swim; to bathe. [from 18th c.]

bogey (plural bogeys)

1. (Australia) A swim or bathe; a bath. [from 19th c.]
   • 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151:

     My mother would use leaves from trees to make soap for washing our bodies with, and unfortunately for us kids there was no excuse not to take a bogey.

• bogart / Bogart

• “bogey” (US) / “bogey” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
• bogey at OneLook Dictionary Search

• IPA^(key): /ˈboɡi/, [ˈbo̞ɡi]
• Hyphenation: bo‧gey

bogey

1. (golf) bogey

• Seldom inflected in cases other than genitive singular (bogeyn) or nominative plural (bogeyt).
• For other inflected forms use bogi.

• bogi

Borrowed from English bogey.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.ɡɛ/

bogey m (plural bogeys)

1. (golf) bogey

• boguey

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