Crossword clues for bogey
bogey
- Woe for Woods
- US Open stumble
- Two over a birdie
- Tiger's concern
- Three-putt result, often
- Subpar performance ... or not
- Stumble for Singh
- Six on a par-five hole
- Result of many a three-putt
- Result of a three-putt, sometimes
- Radar screen blip
- Par plus one
- One over par (golf)
- One over
- Masters stumble
- It's not quite par for the course
- Golf pro's woe
- Golf pro's stumble
- Golf pro's bane
- Four on a par-three hole
- Evil spirit — golf score of one over par for a hole
- Eagle's counterpart
- Birdie's opposite
- Birdie plus two
- Birdie + 2
- Bad news for Mickelson
- A stroke over par, in golf
- 4 on a par 3
- It's not up to par
- Military pilot's concern
- One over par, in golf
- [See grid]
- Menace in the air, maybe
- Scorecard blemish
- An evil spirit
- (in golf) a score of one stroke over par on a golf hole
- An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
- Cinematic nickname
- Swim, in Australia
- Blemish on Kite's score card
- One stroke more than par
- One-over-par score
- Go one over
- A stroke too many
- Specter
- Golf score
- Goblin
- One over par for a hole
- Golf term
- Good score for a duffer
- Professional golfer's bane
- Result of a three-putt, often
- Result of a three-putt, maybe
- Miscue for McIlroy
- It's just over par
- Four on a par three
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bogy \Bo"gy\, n.; pl. Bogies. [See Bogle.]
A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. ``Death's heads and
bogies.''
--J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.]
There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing
bogy in the history of savages.
--C. Kingsley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
World War II aviator slang for "unidentified aircraft, presumably hostile," probably ultimately from bogge, a variant of Middle English bugge "a frightening specter" (see bug (n.)). Thus it shares ancestry with many dialect words, such as bog/bogge (attested 16c.-17c.), bogeyman (16c.), boggart "specter that haunts a gloomy spot" (c.1570, in Westmoreland, Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire). The earliest modern form appears to be Scottish bogle "ghost," attested from c.1500 and popularized c.1800 in English literature by Scott, Burns, etc.
in golfing, c.1891, originally "number of strokes a good player is supposed to need for a given hole or course;" later, "score one over par" (1946); from the same source as bogey (n.1), on the notion of a "phantom" opponent, represented by the "ground score." The word was in vogue at the time in Britain because of the popularity of a music hall tune "Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogey Man."One popular song at least has left its permanent effect on the game of golf. That song is 'The Bogey Man.' In 1890 Dr. Thos. Browne, R.N., the hon. secretary of the Great Yarmouth Club, was playing against a Major Wellman, the match being against the 'ground score,' which was the name given to the scratch value of each hole. The system of playing against the 'ground score' was new to Major Wellman, and he exclaimed, thinking of the song of the moment, that his mysterious and well-nigh invincible opponent was a regular 'bogey-man.' The name 'caught on' at Great Yarmouth, and to-day 'Bogey' is one of the most feared opponents on all the courses that acknowledge him. [1908, cited in OED]\nOther early golfing sources give it an American origin. As a verb, attested by 1948.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context archaic English) The Devil. 2 An object of terror; a bugbear. 3 One of two sets of wheels under a train car. 4 (context UK English) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril. 5 (context engineering English) A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics. 6 (context engineering English) a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition. 7 (context military slang English) 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)'' 8 (context golf English) A score of one over par in golf. n. 1 (context archaic English) The Devil. 2 An object of terror; a bugbear. 3 One of two sets of wheels under a train car. 4 (context UK English) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril. 5 (context engineering English) A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics. 6 (context engineering English) a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition. 7 (context military slang English) 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)'' 8 (context golf English) A score of one over par in golf. vb. (context golf English) To make a bogey.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Bogey or Bogie may refer to:
Bogey is a Spanish crime comics and science fiction series set in a futuristic world, written by Antonio Segura and drawn by Leopoldo Sánchez, featuring the central character Bogey Nicolson, a private detective. It was first self-published by the artist Sánchez in 1981 and later in the Spanish comics magazines Cimoc and K.O. Comics. In the UK it was published in the magazine Warrior.
Usage examples of "bogey".
I see for Colonel Bogey perhaps the basic stores and tool pack which are given to a star-world settler joining a colony.
Although the man was an enemy and would have to be killed, Bethschant was suddenly glad Colonel Bogey had managed to survive.
The barge and the false rendezvous was the ruse by which we secured the Terran Colonel Bogey fur the sport.
The Pretender cares nothing about Colonel Bogey, and only Kanizar will have a loss to suffer.
Empress Miram and her children were on the barge that took Colonel Bogey to Avida.
Xzan that if the Pretender kills Colonel Bogey while attacking the Kanizars, he forfeits the game.
Colonel Bogey several times had he chosen, and the Colonel would never have known the mode or reason of his death.
If this injury had been accidental, he hated to contemplate what Colonel Bogey could do to his enemies by design.
His previous experience told him Colonel Bogey was unlikely to have done such a thing without good reason.
If the causeway gave him easy passage to the island, it would also permit Colonel Bogey and his strange weapons to make the crossing.
The native considered it prudent to find out what changes this new factor would introduce before he engaged in the risks of killing Bogey and capturing the pod.
Avida had an evil reputation, but he was not sure whether Camin Sher, the wildlife, or the mysterious Colonel Bogey was the factor most to be feared.
Colonel Bogey had had the foresight to burn a large area of forest clear of nesting wildlife, and thus had not encountered the problem.
Colonel Bogey had something hidden in those trees which the native had never understood, but which certainly formed some sort of trap.
Perhaps the Terrans might even fend him someone terrible, like Colonel Bogey, to make the forests cringe and the animals die magically at the touch of a wire.