Meaning of BOGEY
| Pronunciation: | | 'bowgee
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- [n] an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
- [n] an evil spirit
- [n] (in golf) a score of one stroke over par on a golf hole
- [v] to shoot in one stroke over par; in golf
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| | See Also: | | aircraft, evil spirit, score, shoot | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Bo"gey\, n.
A goblin; a bugbear. See {Bogy}.
\Bo"gey\, n.; pl. {Bogeys}. [Also {bogie}.]
1. A goblin; a bugbear.
I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. --Wm.
Black.
2. (Golf) A given score or number of strokes, for each hole,
against which players compete; -- said to be so called
because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate
player called Colonel Bogey.
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| | Related Terms: | | air armada, air force, bandit, bogeyman, boggart, bogle, booger, boogerman, boogeyman, bug, bugaboo, bugbear, bugger, combat plane, Dracula, enemy aircraft, fee-faw-fum, Frankenstein, frightener, ghost, ghoul, haunt, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, monster, Mumbo Jumbo, nightmare, ogre, ogress, phantom, revenant, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, shade, specter, spirit, spook, succubus, terror, vampire, werewolf, Wolf-man, wraith |
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