bogey

Etymology 1
Probably related to or alteration of, akin to or from a variant of (whence partly ), of  origin: perhaps from obsolete  (compare  (“threat”, older “fear”), 🇨🇬), from , or from  (compare 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬); see also , whence obsolete. Perhaps the Middle English and Welsh words come from a word related to and originally referred to a goat-shaped specter. Compare also.

The golf sense is from the devil as an imaginary player.

Noun

 * 1)  The Devil.
 * 2) A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
 * 3)  A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
 * 4)  A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
 * 5)  An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
 * : an enemy aircraft.
 * 1)  A score of one over par on a hole.
 * : a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.
 * 1)  An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
 * : an enemy aircraft.
 * 1)  A score of one over par on a hole.
 * : a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.
 * 1)  A score of one over par on a hole.
 * : a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.
 * : a piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril.

Translations

 * German:


 * Bulgarian: зъл дух,
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φόβητρον
 * Macedonian: зол дух, та́ласам, се́ниште
 * Old Tupi: mba'e


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, , postrach
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: пла́шило


 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: неу́тврден авио́н
 * Russian: неопо́знанный самолёт


 * Finnish:, viholliskone
 * Macedonian: неприја́телски авио́н


 * Finnish: bogey, bogi
 * French: ,
 * Icelandic: skolli
 * Irish: bógaí
 * Japanese: ボギー
 * Macedonian: бо́ги
 * Russian: бо́гги

Verb

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

Translations

 * Finnish: tehdä bogi

Etymology 2
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Noun

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

Translations

 * Finnish:

Etymology 3
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To swim; to bathe.

Noun

 * 1)  A swim or bathe; a bath.
 * 2) * 1994, Rita 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.

Etymology 4
A variant of.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  bogey

Declension

 * Seldom inflected in cases other than genitive singular (bogeyn) or nominative plural (bogeyt).
 * For other inflected forms use bogi.

Etymology
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