bogy

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bogy

▶noun (pl. bogies) variant spelling of bogey2.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bogey1 Golf

▶noun (pl. bogeys) a score of one stroke over par at a hole.

■ old-fashioned term for par (in sense 1). ▶verb (bogeys, bogeying, bogeyed) play (a hole) in one stroke over par.

– origin C19: perh. from Bogey (see bogey2).

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bogey2 (also bogy)

▶noun (pl. bogeys)

• 1 an evil or mischievous spirit.

• 2 US military slang an enemy aircraft.

• 3 Brit. informal a piece of nasal mucus.

– origin C19 (as a name applied to the Devil): of unknown origin.