Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bogey"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.; pl. {Bogeys}. [Also {bogie}.]
1. A goblin; a bugbear.
I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. --Wm.
Black.
2. (Golf) 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.
A goblin; a bugbear. See {Bogy}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bogey
n 1: an evil spirit [syn: {bogy}, {bogie}]
2: (in golf) a score of one stroke over par on a golf hole
3: an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft [syn: {bogy},
{bogie}]
v : to shoot in one stroke over par; in golf
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