Meaning
12 sensesA ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
(figuratively)A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
(UK, slang)A police officer.
A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
неопо́знанный самолётneopóznannyj samoljót
an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
(proscribed, slang)Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
The notional opponent of a golfer playing alone.
A score of one over par on a hole.
бо́ггиbóggi
(golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole
(UK)A piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril; a booger.
(UK)A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
(Australia)A swim or bathe; a bath.
(archaic, capitalized, often, usually, with definite article)The Devil.
Gottseibeiuns
Examples
3 sentencesTom has just made a triple bogey.
You've got a bogey in your hair.
deDu hast da ’n Popel im Haar! — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom hit a bogey.
Translations
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Origin
Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English buProbably 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”).
Clipping of bog-standard + -ey (diminutive suffix).
From Dharug bugi- (“to bathe, dive”).
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