Pogey vs Bogey - What's the difference?
pogey | bogey |
(chiefly, historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.
Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance.
* 1984 , Michiel Horn, The Great Depression of the 1930s in Canada (Canadian Historical Booklet no. 39), Canadian Historical Association, p 10:
(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 pogey and bogey
is that pogey is a poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc while bogey is the Devil.As a verb bogey is
to make a bogey.pogey
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Alternative forms
* pogie * pogyNoun
(en-noun)- There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey ,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct.