Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bogeys"

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.

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