bogey
noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
Đồng nghĩa: goblin
- 2.
(archaic, capitalized, often, usually, with definite article)(archaic, often capitalized, usually with definite article) The Devil.
Đồng nghĩa: Azazel, devil, demon, imp
- 3.
(figuratively)A bugbear: any terrifying thing.
- 4.
(British, slang)A police officer.
- 5.
(engineering) A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
- 6.
(military, aviation) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
- 7.
(proscribed, slang)(military, aviation, slang, proscribed) Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.
Đồng nghĩa: bandit
- 8.
(golf) The notional opponent of a golfer playing alone.
- 9.
(golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
- 10.
(UK)A piece of mucus in or removed from the nostril; a booger.
- 11.
(UK)(UK, engineering) A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
- 12.
(Australia)A swim or bathe; a bath.
My mother would use leaves from trees to make soap for washing our bodies with, and unfortunately for us kids there was no excuse not to take a bogey.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(ambitransitive)(golf, ambitransitive) To make a bogey on (a particular hole).
- 2.
(Australia)To swim; to bathe.
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Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (frightening specter, scarecrow) (whence bug), itself of origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg (ghost, hobgoblin); compare bwgwl (“threat”, older “fear”), bagairt, but perhaps the root was borrowed from Germanic. Otherwise from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (swollen up, thick);