Other forms: bogeys
In golf, a bogey is a hole finished one stroke over par. A bogey at the ninth, three bogeys, a double bogey.
The scale runs birdie for one under, par for level, bogey for one over and double bogey for two. Bogey originally meant the standard score itself, and par replaced it, which is why the word slid to mean one worse. In aviation, a bogey is an unidentified aircraft on radar. Note bogeyman, the frightening figure; and that in British informal use a bogey is also dried nasal mucus.
1nounbogeyA hole finished one stroke over par.
“He hit his ball into the water and finished the hole with a bogey.”
2noununidentifiedAn unidentified aircraft on radar.
“The pilot reported a bogey approaching fast from the north.”
bogey is a golf score or unknown contact.
The word comes from bogey meaning a goblin or ghost, from a dialect word related to the Welsh bwg. Victorian golfers played against an imaginary opponent called the Bogey Man, whose score was the standard.
Welsh
bwg — ghost, hobgoblin
Middle English
bugge — frightening specter, scarecrow
English, today
bogey
Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence a doublet of bug), itself of unknown origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”); compare 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 gsw Böögg (“goblin”, “snot”). See also pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), Old English pūca (“goblin, mischievous spirit”), Icelandic púki Swedish puke (“small devil, spook”), whence obsolete 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#Etymology_1. 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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