bogey

Meanings

1. A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
2. The Devil.
3. A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
4. A police officer.
5. A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
6. An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
7. Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
8. The notional opponent of a golfer playing alone.
9. A score of one over par on a hole.
10. A piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril; a booger.

1. To make a bogey on (a particular hole).

1. A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.

1. To swim; to bathe.

1. A swim or bathe; a bath.

1. 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”).
2. Alternative spelling of bogie (“hand-operated truck or trolley”).
3. Alternative spelling of bogie (“railway carriage”).

1. A male given name.
2. Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American film and stage actor.

Etymology

Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence bug), itself of uncertain origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”); compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat”, older “fear”), Irish bagairt (“threat”), but perhaps the root was borrowed from Germanic. Otherwise from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”); compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge and Alemannic German Böögg (“goblin”, “snot”). See also Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), Old English pūca (“goblin, mischievous spirit”), Icelandic púki Swedish puke (“small devil, spook”), whence obsolete English puck. Perhaps the Middle English and Welsh words come from a word related to buck and originally referred to a goat-shaped specter. Compare also booger. The golf sense is from the devil as an imaginary player. The sometimes proscribed conflation with bandit was popularized by the 1986 film Top Gun.