0 in golf, the act of getting the ball into the hole in one shot (= hit) more than par (= the expected number) for that hole
1 something that causes fear among a lot of people, often without reason:
the bogey of unemployment
2 a piece of dried mucus from inside the nose
3 (in golf) to score a bogey for a particular hole:
He bogeyed the sixth, but birdied the seventh.
4 something feared, esp. when the fear is not based on reason:
Too many economists are scared by the bogey of inflation, he says.
Both those old bogeys have gone, and therefore by judicious foreign policy we may avoid this contingency that has loomed so seriously before us.
At the same time, he was engaged most of the time in raising a number of bogeys.
We should not set up bogeys, because they do not exist.
We have had from him all the propaganda and all the old bogeys which have been trotted out in this controversy for many months.
Not one argument did they produce which was not raised over and over again in those days to raise bogeys which have been proved by experience to be unjustified.
Obviously, any doubt about maintenance of full employment raises bogeys in the minds of men who, thirty years ago, feared nothing more than working themselves out of work.
He relinquished the lead, however, with bogeys at 10 and 12.
His round of 63, which tied the lowest round in a major tournament, contained eight birdies, an eagle, three bogeys and six pars.
