bogey
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -əʊɡi
Noun [edit]
bogey (plural bogeys)
- (archaic) The Devil.
- An object of terror; a bugbear.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 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.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 54:
- One of two sets of wheels under a train car.
- (UK) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
- (engineering) A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics.
- (engineering) a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
- (military slang) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen, and often suspected to be hostile. (Also sometimes used as a synonym for bandit - an enemy aircraft)
- (golf) A score of one over par in golf.
Synonyms [edit]
- (piece of semisolid mucus): booger (US)
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
a score of one over par in golf
one of two sets of wheels under a train car
piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril
enemy aircraft
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Verb [edit]
bogey (third-person singular simple present bogeys, present participle bogeying, simple past and past participle bogeyed)
- (golf) To make a bogey.
Translations [edit]
to make a bogey
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Etymology [edit]
Noun [edit]
bogey m (plural bogeys)
