Bogey vs Boogeyman - What's the difference?
bogey | boogeyman |
(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.