What's the difference between bogey and bugbear?

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.

Bugbear


Definition:

  • (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
  • (n.) Same as Bugaboo.
  • (a.) Causing needless fright.
  • (v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I doubt any of us have a real bugbear with the comedian himself, because bitterness and disappointment is something most of us can relate to on some level.
  • (2) This is the uncomfortable truth, of course, which, after four decades at the sharp end of the fertility industry, has become Grudzinskas' bugbear.
  • (3) One dev says: "My biggest bugbear at the moment (on my lowly 3GS) is the number of times app quit due to memory shortages, or because they've taken too long to load.
  • (4) Her serve has been her bugbear since her shoulder operation six years ago, and it is a mark of her grit that she has triumphed despite it.
  • (5) Gay ubiquity began to make it seem difficult for homophobes to travel anywhere interesting without encountering their bugbear.
  • (6) One of the bugbears among locals who hoped the Ridings would remain open is the fact that, in last week's secondary school league tables, it did considerably better than it has in the past: the number of pupils scoring five A*-C grades at GCSE in subjects including maths and English was up from 4% to 13%.
  • (7) Letting agents' fees are a bugbear of all the tenant campaign groups.
  • (8) That it was more than just a personal bugbear became clear in June 2013, when we learned that PennCAN, yet another so-called “school-reform” group focused on vouchers, privatization, and the destruction of public schooling, had financed a “secret poll” that encouraged Corbett to attack the PFT in hopes of gaining support ahead of his midterm reelection campaign.
  • (9) The EHRC has long been a bugbear for the Tory right who see it as a relic of the past.
  • (10) Painfully slow mobile internet connections have long been a bugbear for smartphone owners made to wait while trying to load a simple map or webpage.
  • (11) I haven’t got any problems with people at the FA, but that’s one of my bugbears.” Coulthard checks the walls of her house for a clue as to when England first played at Wembley.
  • (12) That's what politicians should be asking us to envisage when they set upon this bugbear with their big sticks: people on very low incomes earning a very small amount extra and not declaring it.
  • (13) The policy has helped to shape the landscape of diversity within higher education for 35 years, and has become an growing bugbear of the conservative right that sees it as a form of discrimination against white students.
  • (14) But the new performance management system, which is in its third year, is the major bugbear for most staff.
  • (15) After a pledge to pull the Tory party out of the main centre-right grouping in Brussels after the 2009 European elections backfired, Mr Cameron has largely ignored the issue of Europe - a bugbear for past Tory leaders from Margaret Thatcher onwards.
  • (16) The MPC appeared to have become more confident about the outlook for productivity, which has remained a bugbear of Britain’s post-crisis recovery.
  • (17) Much of the book is given over to how he got into campaigning for stem cell research, the hope of many Parkinson's sufferers and bugbear of the Christian right, which sees it as a moral equivalent to abortion.
  • (18) Among the biggest bugbears revealed in the consultation document – the draft ppdate guidance on green claims - are general, untestable claims like products being "eco-" or "environmentally friendly".
  • (19) Wendi not only has no voting position in the family trust (nor do her two children) and is quite a bugbear to the people who do, but she also hasn't had a job in almost 15 years.
  • (20) A chief bugbear of Van Gaal before this game had been that United needed to turn in a display for the full 90 minutes.