bogey

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bəʊɡi/
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• General-American: /boʊɡi/
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• homophone: bogie
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• homophone: bogy
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• rhymes with -əʊɡi
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• CMU ARPABET: B OW1 G IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Clipping of Bogart + -ey.

Probably 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”). See also Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), Old English pūca (“goblin, mischievous spirit”), Icelandic púki Swedish puke (“small devil, spook”), whence obsolete English 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. 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.

Clipping of bog-standard + -ey (diminutive suffix).

From Dharug bugi- (“to bathe, dive”).

A variant of bogie.

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: зъл дух (zǎl duh) — hostile supernatural creature
• Bulgarian: таласъ́м (talasǎ́m) — hostile supernatural creature
• Czech: strašák — hostile supernatural creature
• Czech: strašidlo — hostile supernatural creature
• Finnish: mörkö — hostile supernatural creature
• Ancient Greek: φόβητρον (phóbētron) — hostile supernatural creature
• Macedonian: зол дух (zol duh) — hostile supernatural creature
• Macedonian: та́ласам (tálasam) — hostile supernatural creature
• Macedonian: се́ниште (sénište) — hostile supernatural creature
• Old Tupi: mba'e — hostile supernatural creature
• German: Gottseibeiuns — euphemism for devil
• Bulgarian: плашило (plašilo) — any terrifying thing
• Czech: strašák — any terrifying thing
• Czech: strašidlo — any terrifying thing
• Czech: postrach — any terrifying thing
• Finnish: mörkö — any terrifying thing
• Macedonian: пла́шило (plášilo) — any terrifying thing
• Finnish: kohde — unidentified aircraft
• Macedonian: неу́тврден авио́н (neútvrden avión) — unidentified aircraft
• Russian: неопо́знанный самолёт (neopóznannyj samoljót) — unidentified aircraft
• Spanish: aeronave no identificada — unidentified aircraft
• Finnish: maali — enemy aircraft
• Finnish: viholliskone — enemy aircraft
• Macedonian: неприја́телски авио́н (neprijátelski avión) — enemy aircraft
• Spanish: aeronave enemiga — enemy aircraft
• Finnish: bogey — a score of one over par in golf
• Finnish: bogi — a score of one over par in golf
• French: bogey — a score of one over par in golf
• French: boguey — a score of one over par in golf
• Icelandic: skolli — a score of one over par in golf
• Irish: bógaí — a score of one over par in golf
• Japanese: ボギー (bogī) — a score of one over par in golf
• Macedonian: бо́ги (bógi) — a score of one over par in golf
• Russian: бо́гги (bóggi) — a score of one over par in golf
• Finnish: näyte — representative specimen
• Finnish: tehdä bogi — to make a bogey