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noun

Bogey n. (pl. bogeys and bogies) (Also bogie and bogy)

1.

A goblin; a bugbear.

Synonyms: bogeyman. "I have become a sort of bogey a kill-joy."

2.

(Golf) A score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly, the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; it was said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard score is called par.

3.

(Mil.) An unidentified aircraft; in combat situations, such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be hostile.

Bogey n. (plural bogeys)

1.

A goblin; a bugbear. "I have become a sort of bogey a killjoy."

2.

(Golf) A score on a given hole which is one stroke over par. Originally, bogey had the same meaning as par does now, i.e. 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. A double bogey is a score of two strokes over par.

3.

(Golf) Par. See sense 2, above. (Archaic)

4.

(Military) An unidentified aircraft, especially one detected on a radar screen and believed to be an enemy airplane. (Also spelled bogie)

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Etymology of 'Bogey'

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"Bogey" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jenny used to retail the story with many harrowing allusions to "Pearlin' Jean," whom she somewhat foolishly made use of as a bogey to frighten children into being good. A Mr. Sharpe, who when he was a little boy was once placed in her charge, confesses that he was dreadfully scared at her stories, and that he never ventured down a passage in those days without thinking "Pearlin' Jean," with her ghostly, ...

— Scottish Ghost Stories • Elliott O'Donnell

... right forced them to help the side of wrong. They had plenty of money, some of it German, and they made almost as much trouble as the Germans and pro-Germans themselves. Then, the Germans, pro-Germans, and Pacifists raised the bogey of trouble for the United States at home, while there did not seem to be much danger of getting hurt from abroad. Finally, business was booming as it had never boomed before. The Americans made twelve-and-a-half thousands of millions of dollars out of the war, clear net profit up to the ...

— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood

... athletic in her tastes, too. She had fitted up a small gymnasium, which she used daily. At her request, Mortimer Fenley had laid out a nine-hole links in the park, and in her second golfing year (the current one) Sylvia had gone around in bogey. She would have excelled in tennis, but Robert Fenley was so much away from home that she seldom got a game, while Hilton professed to be too tired for strenuous exercise after long days in the City. She could ride and drive, though forbidden to follow any of the local packs of fox-hounds, ...

— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy

... paper about Lady Tallant being ill and having an operation. Poor chap! He wouldn't have been bothering much about strikes in the Never-Never and the supremacy of the British Crown, any more than I should in similar circumstances.... Well, there! I must go and bogey*.' ...

— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... firmly established on ground of her own tilling, and she was immune. And this led her to a consideration of those she knew who had been flayed. They were not few, and a surfeit of publicity is a sufficient reason for not enumerating them here. And during this process of exorcism Notoriety became a bogey, too: he had been powerless to hurt them. It must be true what Chiltern had said that the world was changing. The tragic and the ridiculous here joining hands, she remembered that Reggie Farwell had told her that he had recently made a trip to western New York to inspect ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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