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Bogle vs Bogey - What's the difference?

bogle | bogey |

As nouns the difference between bogle and bogey

is that bogle is a goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear while bogey is (archaic) the devil.

As a verb bogey is

(golf) to make a bogey.

bogle

English

Alternative forms

* boggle

Noun

(en noun)
  • A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
    • (Webster 1913)

    bogey

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bogie * bogy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (piece of semisolid mucus) booger (US)

    Related terms

    * double bogey

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (golf) To make a bogey.

    • See also

    * bogart / Bogart ----