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noun

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

A goblin; a bugbear.

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

(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.

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

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Etymology of 'Bogey'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bogey" Quotes from Famous Books

... love was the purest And strongest and surest I'd felt since my first thread was spun; I know I'm a bogey, But she's an old fogey, So why in the world did ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... you, Maharaja," said the history student. "'Our country," I tried to explain, "has been brought to death's door through sheer fear—from fear of the gods down to fear of the police; and if you set up, in the name of freedom, the fear of some other bogey, whatever it may be called; if you would raise your victorious standard on the cowardice of the country by means of downright oppression, then no true lover of the country ...

— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore

... is only one fault with the Members of my Government, only one fault with this country. We are all foolishly and blindly sanguine. We are optimistic by persuasion and self-persuasion. We like the comfortable creed. I suppose that the bogey of war has strutted with us for so long that we ...

— A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... like it!" snapped Sadie. "To think of shutting me up alone in that bogey-hole! I might have ...

— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil

... heart than hers. She believed fully in the ghost who was to be seen when the moon was at the full, pacing slowly up and down, through that plantation of trees at her right; she had unswerving faith in the bogey who uttered terrific cries, and terrified the people who were brave enough to walk at night through Deadman's Glen. But she believed more fully still in Polly, in Polly's love and despair, and in the sacredness of the errand ...

— Polly - A New-Fashioned Girl • L. T. Meade

... 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 a house ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... another feature introduced also from the Deccan into the "national" propaganda. In the Deccan the cult of Shivaji, as the epic hero of Mahratta history, was intelligible enough. But in Bengal his name had been for generations a bogey with which mothers hushed their babies, and the Mahratta Ditch in Calcutta still bears witness to the terror produced by the daring raids of Mahratta horsemen. To set Shivaji up in Bengal on the pedestal of Nationalism in the face of such traditions was no ...

— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol

... at home, and on that day there were visitors in the brewery. These visitors were old Bogey and his grandmother, who came to inspect it; and Bogey's grandmother is a venomous old woman, who is never idle: she never rides out to pay a visit without taking her work with her; and, accordingly, she had brought it on the day in question. She sewed biting-leather to be worked ...

— What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales • Hans Christian Andersen

Words linked to "Bogey" : golf game, double-bogey, bogie, golf, shoot, bogy, double bogey, evil spirit