A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
A bog-standard (representative) specimen taken from the center of production.
A swim or bathe; a bath.
My mother would use leaves from trees to make soap for washing our bodies with, and unfortunately for us kids there was no excuse not to take a bogey.
A male given name.
Bogey's voice is breaking. When he speaks he rushes up and down the scale.
Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American film and stage actor.
In quintessential roles, Bogart and Bergman are former lovers reunited in wartorn Casablanca. Bogey is the cynical cafe owner who lives by his own moral code and sticks his neck out for “no one.”
Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence bug), itself of uncertain origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh b...
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