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Definition: Bogey |
BogeyNoun1. An evil spirit. 2. (in golf) a score of one stroke over par on a golf hole. 3. An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft. Verb1. To shoot in one stroke over par; in golf. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bogey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
Note: Bogey \Bo"gey\, noun; plural Bogeys. [Also bogie.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Swiss German (böögg). (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Perhaps derived from the word bogle, which is defined as a sense of dread or annoyance. Definition: In golf, "bogey" means to shoot one over par. Context: "Bogey" is used when the golfer hits one shot over the necessary amount of strokes to complete one hole. Social Source: Golfer. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Transportation | An assembly of parts consisting of wheels and axles with necessary springs and structural members that support the main body of a rail car at each end. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: BogeySynonyms: bogie (n), bogy (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: trucked (transportation). |
Crosswords: Bogey |
| English words defined with "bogey": Boggard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bogey": Build a snowman ♦ long piggyback conveyor ♦ pick-a-back conveyor ♦ wagon spotter. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bogey": bug. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bogey" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (bogey). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Especially the bogey man. (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers; writing credit: Debra Hill; John Carpenter) Bogey Lowenstein's party is normal (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) What's a Bogey Lowenstein (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) I think it's so noble of Bogey to sacrifice love for the good couse (Liten film, En; writing credit: Robert Gustafsson; Jonas Inde) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Colonel Bogey (1948) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Oh! Nursie won't let the bad bogey get me!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bogey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.64% of the time. "Bogey" is used about 112 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.64% | 106 | 31,637 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.46% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.89% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 112 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bogey": double bogey. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bogey": Bogey-beast, bogey-five, bogey-fives, bogey-free, bogey-horse, bogey-man, bogey-men. | |
Ending with "bogey": double-bogey, quadruple-bogey, triple-bogey. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bogey | 25 |
bogey golf | 18 |
bogey to birdie | 6 |
colonel bogey | 5 |
colonel bogey march | 5 |
instant bogey golf | 5 |
blues bogey double | 4 |
bogey man | 3 |
bogey hills country club | 3 |
bogey sticker | 3 |
bogey hills village | 2 |
bogey inn | 2 |
bogey hills | 2 |
bob bogey | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bogey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bezdi (annoyance, awkwardness, bother, botheration, displeasure, flea-bite, hassle, officiousness, peeve, trouble), trolejbus (trolley bus), moçalor (boggy, Fenny, marshy, quaggy, swampy, uliginose, uliginous), lugat (basilisk, boggard, Bogle, cockatrice, fright, hob, hobgoblin, spectre, turn-skin), kukudh (elf, gremlin), drezinë. (various references) | |
Arabic | غول (alcohol, ghoul, goblin, hobgoblin, ogre), شبح (apparition, evil spirit, ghost, gremlin, idol, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spectrum, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith), بعبع (bete noire, bugaboo). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вампир (ghoul, vampire, vampire bat, werwolf), плашило (fright, golliwog, grotesque, hob, hobgoblin, scarecrow). (various references) | |
Czech | strašák (bogy). (various references) | |
Danish | bogie (bogie, bogy, truck, truck type). (various references) | |
Dutch | bullebak, draaistel (bogie, bogy, truck). (various references) | |
Farsi | جن (Deuce, Elf, Goblin, Spook, Sprite, Urchin), شیطان (Arch, Deuce, Devil, Impish, Mischievous, Naughty, Tempter), دیو (Gnome, Goblin, Spook). (various references) | |
Finnish | teli (bogie, bogy, truck, truck type), mörkö (bugbear), kääntöteli (bogie, bogy, truck). (various references) | |
French | bogie (bogy), bogey, bogee, crotte de nez. (various references) | |
German | kobold (elf, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hobgoblin, imp, leprechaun, pixie, pixy, puck, sprite). (various references) | |
Greek | στοιχείο (bogy, bugbear, cell, data, element, genie, ghost, principle, rudiment, sprite), περιστρεφόμενο ικρίωμα (bogie, bogy, truck), περιστρεφόμενο πλαίσιο (bogie, bogy, rotating loop, truck), περιστρεφόμενο υπόβαθρο (bogie, bogy, truck), φάντασμα (apparition, bogy, genie, ghost, gnome, hobgoblin, phantasm, phantom, pixy, specter, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפלצת (bete noire, freak, horror, monster, monstrosity), "חליל (bete noire, scarecrow). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kísértet (apparition, appearance, boggle, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shadow, specter, spectre, spook, vampire, wraith), madárijesztő (bogy, scarecrow). (various references) | |
Italian | regolare (act, adjust, arm, cash up, control, control oneself, direct, even, formal, guide, level, modulate, normal, point, proper, regular, regularize, regulate, rule, rules, set, settle, smooth, Square, standard, steady, systematic, systematical, trim, tune), norma (custom, direction, guidance, instruction, norm, par, practice, principle, regulation, rule, standard), carrello (bogie, caddie, carriage, Dolly, runner, trolley, truck, under carriage, undercarriage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ボキャ貧 (bogie, lacking the words to say what one means). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボギー (bogie). (various references) | |
Manx | oyr dwoaie, bogee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogeybay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bogie (bogie, bogy, truck), espantalho (bugaboo, dud, fright, guy, scarecrow). (various references) | |
Russian | привидение (apparition, bogeyman, boggard, boggart, eidolon, fetch, ghost, shade, spectre, spirit, spook, wraith), домовой (bogy, brownie, hobgoblin). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bauk (bogy, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, hob, hobgoblin), udarac (beat, blow, bunt, dig, hit, impact, jolt, lash, lick, puff, punch, stroke, thwack, wallop, whack), teretni vagon (boxcar, goods wagon), neidentifikovani avion, avet (apparition, bogle, ghost, phantom, specter, spook, visitant). (various references) | |
Spanish | carretón (bogie, bogy, cart, dray, handcart, trolley, waggon, wagon). (various references) | |
Swedish | spöke (apparition, boggard, bugaboo, bugbear, fright, ghost, phantom, specter, spectre, spirit, spook), buse (bogey-man, bugbear, rapscallion, rowdy, ruffian, tough). (various references) | |
Turkish | beraberlikten bir sayı fazla, umacı (bogie, bogy, bogyman, bugaboo, bugbear, golliwog), gulyabani (bogie, bogy, ghoul, Goblin, hob). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | yêu quái (bogle, bogy), ma quỷ (bogle, bogy, daemon, demon, fiend, sprite), ông ba bị (bogy, hobgoblin). (various references) | |
Welsh | bwgan (ghost, scarecrow), bwci (bugbear, ghost), bwbach (bugbear, scarecrow). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bogey": bogeyed, bogeying, bogeyman, bogeymen, bogeys. (additional references) | |
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"Bogey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bageu, Bedgey, beogy, bigay, bloge, bodey, bodgery, bodgy, boeg, boegy, boey, bofe, boge, bogee, bogeer, bogel, boger, Boges, boggen, bogget, boggly, bogic, bogye, Bogyo, Boigny, bokey, Boley, boogy, booney, Borey, botei, bouey, boxey, bugy, dogey, Gobey, Hogey, Mogey, ogey, Pogey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bogey" (pronounced bō"gē) |
| 3 | -ō" g ē | fogy, hoagie, Hoagy, Yogi. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-o-y" | |
-1 letter: bogy, goby, gybe, obey. | |
-2 letters: beg, bey, bog, boy, bye, ego, gey, gob, goy, obe, yob. | |
-3 letters: be, bo, by, go, oe, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-o-y" | |
+1 letter: bogeys, boogey, bygone. | |
+2 letters: biogeny, bogeyed, bogymen, boogeys, buoyage, bygones, goodbye, obeying, pageboy. | |
+3 letters: bogeying, bogeyman, bogeymen, boogeyed, boogymen, broguery, buoyages, dogberry, goodbyes, gorbelly, moneybag, pageboys. | |
+4 letters: bigotedly, boogeying, boogeyman, boogeymen, embodying, geobotany, moneybags, rebodying. | |
+5 letters: balneology, bayoneting, becomingly, beworrying, bibliopegy, bryologies, disobeying, embryogeny, embryology, exobiology, gooseberry, loganberry, neighborly, obligately, overbuying, phlebology, youngberry. | |
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