Definitions for Bogey

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Bogey bo·gey

Spelling: [boh-gee; for 2 also boo g-ee, Bogey is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in Bogey (begoy).

Definitions for Bogey

noun

1. Golf. a score of one stroke over par on a hole. par1 (def 3).
2. bogy1 (defs 1–3).
3. Also, bogy, bogie. Military. an unidentified aircraft or missile, especially one detected as a blip on a radar screen.
4. bogie1 .
5. a swim; bathe.
6. a hobgoblin; evil spirit.
7. anything that haunts, frightens, annoys, or harasses.
8. something that functions as a real or imagined barrier that must be overcome, bettered, etc.:
9. Military. bogey1 (def 3).
10. Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.

verb (used with object)

1. Golf. to make a bogey on (a hole):

verb (used without object)

1. to swim; bathe.

verb (used with or without object)

1. bogart.

Origin of Bogey

First recorded in 1890-95; spelling variant of bogy²

Examples for Bogey

Percentage .931—six better than bogey and 400 points ahead of Ty Cobb.

This time she saw that the bogey man had got her and no mistake.

Note: This article has been corrected to note that bogey passed away in 1957, four years before The Jockey Club opened in 1961.

He looked like a large baby listening for a bogey in the chimney.

Tinker and bogey did not understand the full extent of their danger.

And Ingé was given up to her, and this is how Ingé came into bogey's domain.

Accompanied by bogey, Mark Antony reached his quarters in safety.

bogey was quite astounded at the transformation of his dress.

I am a bad golfer, but even bad golfers do holes in bogey now and then.

From morning to night we race about as if the bogey man were at our heels.