单词 | bogey |
释义 | bogeyn. Golf. a. The number of strokes a good player may be reckoned to need for the course or for a hole. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > number of strokes estimated for course or hole bogey1892 The Colonel1900 1892 Field 2 Jan. 6/1 A novelty was introduced in shape of a Bogey tournament for a prize... Fourteen couples started, but the Bogey defeated all. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 6/2 Jones, with a handicap of 17, receives an allowance against Bogey of 13 strokes. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 221/2 There is also a species of competition called ‘bogey’ play, in which each man plays against a ‘bogey’ score—a score fixed for each hole in the round before starting. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert iii. 80 ‘Weren't you giving yourself rather a large family?’.. ‘Was I?’ he said, dully. ‘I don't know. What's bogey?’ 1932 J. A. Barlow Elements Rifle Shooting iii. 43 It is a good plan to set oneself a definite score below which one must never fall. In other words, a bogey score for the practice or shoot. 1959 Listener 5 Nov. 802/1 Par Contract is a way of playing bridge against bogey. c. A score of one stroke over par for a hole. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > scoring half1881 par1887 bird1906 birdie1906 eagle1909 double eagle1925 albatross1932 hole in one1935 bogey1946 double bogey1954 1946 E. C. Acree et al. Golf Simplified 113 Bogey, a hole scored in one stroke over par. 1951 Golf World 15 June 16/1 Hall had seven birdies, two eagles and one bogie. 1954 R. T. Jones in H. W. Wind Compl. Golfer 302/1 One must really see Pine Valley to appreciate it... Thrill with one's pars, be satisfied with a ‘bogey’, and continue on far from downcast after a ‘double bogey’. 1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 54 Bogey (golf), the total score any average player might make on a hole. Not any hole shot in one over par, though this interpretation has at times gained some acceptance. 1974 Greenville (S. Carolina) News 23 Apr. 8/5 He made bogey from the woods. 1977 New Yorker 8 Aug. 56/2 He struggled down in two putts, holing from three and a half feet for his bogey 5 and a four-round total of 278. 1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 266 After the rubber golf ball was invented in America in 1898.., the bogey that had been established for the old gutta-percha ball became too easy and the British lowered their bogies by about one stroke per hole and kept the term, but Americans began to use the word par instead, keeping the old British word bogey to mean the older, easier expected score of a good player, usually one stroke more than the new par. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022). bogeyv. Golf (originally U.S.). transitive. To complete (a hole) in one stroke over par. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (transitive)] > type of play or stroke drive1743 draw1842 heel1857 hook1857 loft1857 founder1878 to top a ball1881 chip1889 duff1890 pull1890 slice1890 undercut1891 hack1893 toe1893 spoon1896 borrow1897 overdrive1900 trickle1902 bolt1909 niblick1909 socket1911 birdie1921 eagle1921 shank1925 explode1926 bird1930 three-putt1946 bogey1948 double-bogey1952 fade1953 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (intransitive)] > types of stroke putt1690 approach1887 duff1890 to drive the green1892 hack1893 sclaff1893 press1897 chip1903 bolt1909 to chip in1914 double-bogey1952 bogey1977 1948 B. Hogan Power Golf v. 57 After he drove into the rough he bogeyed the hole and lost his advantage. 1971 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 27 Mar. 23/1 Gary Player bogeyed two of the last three holes. 1977 N.Y. Times 13 June 43 Player hooked his approach, missed the green and bogeyed. 1984 News (Mexico City) 12 Mar. 32/5 But he bogeyed again, catching a bunker on the 15th. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : bogybogeyn.1 also refers to : bogybogeyn.2 < n.1892v.1948 see also |
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