bogey
English
Alternative forms
- bogie, bogy
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊɡi/
Audio (RP) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /boʊɡi/
Audio (AU) (file) - Homophones: bogie, bogy
- Rhymes: -əʊɡi
- Hyphenation: bo‧gey
Etymology 1
Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge ("frightening specter, scarecrow"), perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg ("ghost, hobgoblin"; compare Welsh bwgwl ("threat", older "fear")) or from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”) (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge and Alemannic German Böögg (“goblin”, “snot”)). Perhaps the Middle English and Welsh words come from a word related to buck and originally referred to a goat-shaped specter.
Also possibly related to Irish bagairt (“threat”).
Golf meaning from the devil as an imaginary player.
Noun
bogey (plural bogeys)
- (archaic, often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Satan
- A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
- Synonym: goblin
- (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.
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- (engineering) A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
- (military, aviation) An unidentified aircraft,[n 1] especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
- 1987, Bear, Greg, “Lacrimosa Dies Illa!”, in The Forge of God (science fiction), →ISBN, OCLC 874921586, page 83:
- 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.
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- (military, aviation, slang) Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
- 1986, Jim Cash; Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun, spoken by Cougar:
- 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?
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- (golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
- Coordinate terms: buzzard, par, birdie, eagle, albatross, condor, ostrich
- (UK) Alternative form of booger: a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.
Related terms
- double bogey
- triple bogey
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Verb
bogey (third-person singular simple present bogeys, present participle bogeying, simple past and past participle bogeyed)
- (golf) To make a bogey.
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Noun
bogey (plural bogeys)
- (UK, engineering) A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
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Etymology 3
From Dharug bugi- (“to bathe, dive”).
Verb
bogey (third-person singular simple present bogeys, present participle bogeying, simple past and past participle bogeyed)
- (Australia) To swim; to bathe. [from 18th c.]
Noun
bogey (plural bogeys)
- (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.
- 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151:
Etymology 4
A variant of bogie.
Noun
bogey (plural bogeys)
- Alternative spelling of bogie (“one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle”)
Notes
- United States Department of Defense Air Land Sea Application Center (May 2020), “Multi-service Brevity Codes”, in Brevity: Multi-service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Multi-service Brevity Codes, archived from the original on 2021-06-30, page 6: “BOGEY: [A/A] [S/A] [SO] A CONTACT whose identity is unknown.”
References
- “bogey”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- bogey at OneLook Dictionary Search
Finnish
Etymology
From English bogey.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboɡi/, [ˈbo̞ɡi]
- Syllabification(key): bo‧gey
Noun
bogey
- (golf) bogey
Declension
- Seldom inflected in cases other than genitive singular (bogeyn) or nominative plural (bogeyt).
- For other inflected forms use bogi.
Synonyms
- bogi
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English bogey.
Pronunciation
- (France) IPA(key): /bɔ.ɡɛ/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /bɔ.ɡe/, /bɔ.ɡi/
Noun
bogey m (plural bogeys)
- (golf) bogey
Alternative forms
- boguey
Coordinate terms
- eagle
- birdie
- albatros