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also bogie
or bogy
1
as in dread
something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason
math and math tests have long been bogeys for many students
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2
as in ghost
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
the child believed bogeys lived in the closet
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Recent Examples of bogey
Charlie carded a 4-over 76 in the first round, with three birdies and seven bogeys.
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Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
Cantlay, after opening with a bogey and double bogey, battled all day but settled for a 1-over 71.
—Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Ramos flung his bat so wildly high while striking out against San Diego Padres right-hander Dylan Cease that the flight tower at Miramar Naval Base might have identified it as a bogey.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025
But bogies on 14, 17 and 18 undid his bid to catch Scheffler.
—Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025
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Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
Cantlay, after opening with a bogey and double bogey, battled all day but settled for a 1-over 71.
—Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Ramos flung his bat so wildly high while striking out against San Diego Padres right-hander Dylan Cease that the flight tower at Miramar Naval Base might have identified it as a bogey.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025
But bogies on 14, 17 and 18 undid his bid to catch Scheffler.
—Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bogey
Noun
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Dixon looks ahead with a mix of optimism and dread.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk has united the parties in a sense of dread that the country has arrived at a dangerous place.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
13 Sep. 2025
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The bright orange bucket, sporting Home Depot's logo, features jack-o'-lanterns, bats, ghosts, spiders and spiderwebs.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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The ghosts of the Federal Theatre still haunt the 102-year-old movie house, and David Lindoerfer has seen them.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
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These vessels can blend into the ocean’s background noise and deploy advanced drones designed to confuse and distract enemy tracking systems.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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At first, drones were used to scout and drop makeshift bombs onto enemy troops’ heads.—
Joseph Nepomuceno,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Park Station fills a stein-sized hole in an island that’s otherwise known for open-air beer haunts.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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Fischer says the play resulted from Kirk’s sense, on a relatively recent return from Los Angeles to visit his old haunts, that much of old Chicago had disappeared.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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With the demon defeated and the haunting over, the Warrens get to experience something of a happily ever after, living to experience Judy’s wedding and see their daughter have her own baby.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Despite specifying various antics with pills, a belt-as-noose, and a gun, Cloud has given him no real demons to explore.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Recent evidence points to the Marlins being the kind of bugaboo for the New York teams, who face differing degrees of difficulty in their quests to become division winners.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Instead, the world over will have to increase more reliable energy sources, particularly coal, natural gas and that other bugaboo of environmentalists, nuclear energy.—
Peter Murphy,
Hartford Courant,
18 Aug. 2025
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These white ensembles with feather motifs rendered the models like angels on earth.—
Blue Carreon,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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As the show went on, the Winchester brothers uncovered a much larger battle between heaven and hell, joined by Castiel (Misha Collins), an angel who becomes their ally and family, and often clashing with figures like Crowley (Mark Sheppard), the witty king of hell.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And the plague is coming on fast, ready to kill.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Then a plague hits the household.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Bogey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogey. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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