Thesaurus results for BOGEY

bogey

noun

variants also bogie or bogy

as in dread

something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason math and math tests have long been bogeys for many students

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as in ghost

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people the child believed bogeys lived in the closet

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Recent Examples of bogey His tee shot on the 12th was long, and his delicate chip didn't reach the green, leading to another bogey. —

CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026 Young was eight shots behind at the start and shot a 65, which included a bogey on the par-5 15th when his wedge came up short and rolled back into the water. —

Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026 Watch the clip Future reference — no middle fingers: A Scottish player may be penalized for giving the middle finger during a quadruple bogey. —

Cate Martel, The Hill, 10 Apr. 2026 Ghim shot 67, making an eagle on the par-5 11th, then giving back the strokes with bogeys on 15 and 16. —

Dallas Morning News, 20 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bogey

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The many leaps in time to the wedding—to which Ruben shows up on a motorcycle, angry enough to knock his brother out with a single punch—consistently ratchet up the sense of dread, and the suspense over why or how these two have stayed enmeshed.

— Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
But fights are just as integral to the Netflix show created by Lee Sung Jin, and the series’ sound team needed to do even more meticulous work building visceral senses of anger, stress, and dread that slowly swallow up the characters and steer them into making a compounding set of poor decisions.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026