Albatross vs Bogey - What's the difference?
albatross | bogey |
Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
(golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole.
(idiomatic) A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
* 2006 March 13, (Richard Lugar), speech to the (Brookings Institution),
an (l) (a large oceanic bird of the Southern Hemisphere )
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(archaic) The Devil.
An object of terror; a bugbear.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 54:
*:If one man could be said to be responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy , it was a much-decorated British general named Sir Robert Wilson.
One of two sets of wheels under a train car.
(UK) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
(engineering) A representative specimen, taken from the centre a spread of production - a sample with bogey (typical) characteristics.
(engineering) a standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen, and often suspected to be hostile. (Also sometimes used as a synonym for bandit - an enemy aircraft)
(golf) A score of one over par in golf.
As nouns the difference between albatross and bogey
is that albatross is while bogey is (archaic) the devil.As a verb bogey is
(golf) to make a bogey.albatross
English
Noun
(en-noun)- energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.