[syn: bogy, bogie, bogey]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bogey \Bo"gey\, n.; pl. Bogeys. [Also bogie and bogy,
plural bogies.]
1. A goblin; a bugbear.
Syn: bogeyman.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I have become a sort of bogey -- a kill-joy. --Wm.
Black.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Golf) a score one stroke over par for a hole; formerly,
the definition of bogey was the same as that now used for
par, i.e., an ideal score or number of strokes, for each
hole, against which players compete; -- it was said to be
so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary
first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. Now the standard
score is called par.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
3. (Mil.) an unidentified aircraft; in combat situations,
such craft not identified as friendly are assumed to be
hostile.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bogie \Bo"gie\, n. [A dialectic word. N. of Eng. & Scot.]
A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around
a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a
railway track.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bogie
n 1: an evil spirit [syn: bogey, bogy, bogie]
2: an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft [syn: bogy,
bogie, bogey]