Bogey

·add. ·noun A goblin; a bugbear.

II. Bogey ·noun A goblin; a bugbear. ·see Bogy.

III. Bogey ·add. ·noun A given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete;

— said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey.