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Bogey


Definition:

  • (n.) A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (2) He hit cleanly and straight down the 14th fairway to restore equilibrium, as news filtered through that back-to-back bogeys by Scott had left Mickelson alone at the front.
  • (3) He failed to recover from a disappointing opening eight holes and on the par-five 9th Woods slightly overshot the green with his second shot, sending his chip from the first cut well left of the pin.He sunk the remaining putt to card his first birdie of the day but then pulled his tee shot at the 10th well left and played the back nine one over par, starting with two bogeys before clawing back to finish tied for sixth place.
  • (4) His fourth bogey dragged him back to par with five holes left, his Sunday lead now used up, although he was still in the frame, two shots ahead of Woods, one behind the leaders, Scott and Mickelson.
  • (5) He focuses his rhetoric on the invisible bogey figure in the room, a Democratic politician who happens not to be his actual rival in the contest – the incumbent senator, Kay Hagan – but a more distant figure looming over the race.
  • (6) Gareth Bale: we know Belgium, we might even be their bogey team Read more Saluting Bale’s rise from a “young boy in Cardiff working hard on a dream” to becoming a cannon that “rips the world apart”, it urges the Wales forward to “unleash the dragon, let out the fire inside!” The track was written by Emmet Crowley, a British music lecturer at the Alfonso X el Sabio university in Madrid, and his Costa Rican wife, who has also composed a song about the Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas.
  • (7) When looked at from this perspective, the fight against forced labour ceases to be a simple battle against abstract economic forces or the bogey-men criminals able to make the most of them.
  • (8) This spectre is the bogey conjured by Mubarak himself.
  • (9) They have found Everton the nearest thing to a bogey club in recent years and Darron Gibson's second‑half winner, his first goal since signing from Manchester United last month , means they have won only two of their last 15 league games at Goodison.
  • (10) With Villa not seriously threatening any improvement to a woeful return of six goals in their last 20 Premier League road trips, Hull killed off the game for a rare win against their biggest bogey team.
  • (11) Watson then recorded his fourth birdie in six holes on the 13th to close within a shot and Furyk did likewise with a birdie on the 11th, only to promptly bogey the next after chipping from one side of the green off the other.
  • (12) "I knew I needed to make birdies and not make bogeys.
  • (13) Dzeko scored either side of half-time and, however scruffy it became, nobody should really be surprised when there was so much riding on the game and Everton have long been considered City's bogey club.
  • (14) On the GOP side, candidates are pushed by an equal and opposite incentive to continue attacking the media, which has long been a favorite bogey figure for hardline American conservatives.
  • (15) Research communications is about engagement not dissemination and this is often where the bogey man, marketing comes into it.
  • (16) In truth, her real bogey-figures were two earlier planning theorists, Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier.
  • (17) Westwood experienced all the vagaries on the front nine, having to sink three bogey putts to stay in the picture and grabbing a birdie at the 5th after going into the right-hand side bunker.
  • (18) Sporting Kansas City vs Real Salt Lake Saturday 4pm ET, Sporting Park ( ESPN, UniMas, TSN2, RDS) Mike Kuhn , Editor, Down the Byline , Sporting Kansas City: Sporting KC is finally back to an MLS Cup final, after finally getting over their bogey team in Houston, Sporting face off against Real Salt Lake Saturday at Sporting Park.
  • (19) Nose Doctor: who knew kids would be attracted by bogey-related apps?
  • (20) The German's unlikely challenge, though, was to falter around the turn and formally end with a double bogey on the par three 12th.

Boggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Men characteristically present with lower tract symptoms, often epididymitis, a cystic or boggy periprostatic mass on rectal examination and ipsilateral nonvisualization on excretory urography.
  • (2) Richard Boggis-Rolfe, chief executive of Odgers Berndtson, said: "I have accepted Johnny's resignation as an adviser with regret.
  • (3) Emma Boggis, chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance , which represents more than 320 sports governing bodies and about 8,000 sports clubs, said she was pleased the government was wasting no time in developing a new approach.
  • (4) Patients presented with thick-roofed blisters and denuded, red, boggy areas of mucosa.
  • (5) It crosses a flat boggy area and then descends steeply to the shore where you will find a pebbly beach; the far end is sandy.
  • (6) Boggy congestion was present in two with cystoid edema.
  • (7) The crash site was surrounded by water and boggy land, hampering access, Smith said.
  • (8) For the release the new beavers, both around two years old, were carried in separate crates through a boggy field down to the riverbank, where the team of wildlife experts had constructed two lodges for them in a quiet spot under willow trees.
  • (9) But it was a profitable marriage in 1677 that secured boggy farmland in what became the Mayfair and Belgravia areas of London that really cemented the family fortunes.
  • (10) Instead, continue on your grassy, often boggy, path, heading south then southwest.
  • (11) We performed 16 synovectomies of the knee in 14 children, adolescents, and young adults with hemophilia A for boggy synovium due to hemophilia.
  • (12) Builders laid logs and brushwood on the boggy ground before building it up in layers, finishing with gravel and rammed clay still so solid and sound it looks modern.
  • (13) The Forest of Bowland , a striking landscape of boggy, open upland carpeted with heather and bracken, is home to some of the last breeding pairs of hen harriers in England.
  • (14) Though the route is relatively easy it can be very boggy beyond Blea Tarn, so wear appropriate footwear.
  • (15) We then scaled boggy slopes on tank-style metal treads.
  • (16) We recommend retrograde urethrography in male patients with a pelvic fracture or significant lower abdominal or perineal trauma without a fracture when associated with gross hematuria, a bloody urethral discharge, inability to void, swelling, ecchymosis or hematoma of the perineum or penis, or a "high-riding" or boggy prostate.
  • (17) At the end of the Nanjing Road, the buildings seemed to part like curtains, and there was the Huangpu river and, beyond, Pudong, until 1990 a boggy swampland, but now packed tight with skyscrapers of every imaginable, and some unimaginable, shape and size – Shanghai's iconic and totemic billboard for the restlessness and energy that is modern China.
  • (18) The progression of upper airway edema in 14 patients was characterized by obliteration of the aryepiglottic folds, arytenoid eminences, and interarytenoid areas by boggy, edematous tissue that prolapsed to occlude the airway.
  • (19) Phil Burston, water policy officer at the RSPB, said: "Wading birds like lapwings, redshanks and avocets rely on shallow pools and boggy marshes.
  • (20) They hate tap water, but need a boggy environment; in summer, sit plants in a tray with rainwater half an inch up their plastic pots.