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▪ I. bogy1, bogey|ˈbəʊgɪ|
Also boguey, bogie. Pl. bogies.
[Found in literature only recently; old people vouched (1887) for its use in the nursery as early as 1825, but only as proper name (sense 1). Possibly a southern nursery form of bogle, boggle, and boggard, or going back like them to a simpler form which, as mentioned under bog and bogle, may be a variant of bugge, bug ‘terror, bugbear, scarecrow’. But in the absence of evidence, positive statements concerning its relation to these words cannot be made. (That they are connected with the Slavonic bog ‘god’, is a mere fancy from the similarity of form, without any evidence.)]
1. As quasi-proper name: The evil one, the devil.
1836–40Barham Ingol. Leg., Witches' Frolic, But hears the words ‘Scratch’ and ‘Old Bogey’ and ‘Nick’. Ibid. (1840) 322 Then Boguey'd have you sure as eggs is eggs. 1840Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 88 To admit to evidence such as avow their credence in ‘old Bogie’. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. v. (1858) 239 The people are all naughty and Bogey carries them all off. 1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fort. III. 85 I'll put out the light and go away, and leave you all by yourself with Bogie. 1879M. Conway Demonol. I. i. iii. 16.
2. A bogle or goblin; a person much dreaded.
1857S. Osborn Quedah ii. 17 Malay pirates..those bogies of the Archipelago. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. (1878) 19 On the top of each gate post a most dreadful bogy. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland 118 The sheepwalks have got a bad name for bogies.
3. fig. An object of terror or dread; a bugbear.
1865Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 2/3 Reform is not a bogy to cheat, but a blessing to recognise and regulate. 1878N. Amer. Rev. 135 Men..who discover bogies in every measure.
4. Criminals' slang. A detective; a policeman.
1924S. Scott Human Side i. 23 Men will listen to the vilest epithets, but call them ‘bogey’, ‘brassey’, ‘copper’, or ‘policeman’, and they will be at your throat. 1931W. F. Brown in Police Jrnl. Oct. 501 She told a detective (bogey) she knew that Jack was in the brothel (case). 1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid 17 One of the bogies from Vine Street reckernizes me. 1960Observer 24 Jan. 7/2 Suppose..a bogy did get it up for a villain now and again by making sure that some gear was found in his flat?
5. A piece of dried nasal mucus. colloq.
1937in Partridge Dict. Slang 853/1 s.v. sweep. 1955 K. Amis That Uncertain Feeling xii. 158 ‘You've got a bogey on your nose. Improves your looks no end.’ I was near the mirror... I peeped in and saw the bogey. It was large and vermiform and clung to the wing of my right nostril. Ibid. xiii. 176, I felt my nostrils carefully, testing for bogeys. 1967D. Pinner Ritual xv. 148 He..removed wax from ears, bogeys from nose, blackheads from chin.
6. An unidentified aircraft; an enemy aeroplane. slang.
1943Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake 16 Bogey, a friendly aircraft [corrected in ed. 1945 to:] a suspect aircraft. 1944Life 17 July 20 Before supper was over this evening, several ‘bogeys’—as unidentified planes are called under such circumstances—were seen approaching from different directions.
7. attrib. and Comb., as bogy-man, bogy-word, etc.
1863Kingsley Water Bab. iv. 146 The old German bogy-painters. c1890Bogey man [see note s.v. bogey]. 1912G. B. Shaw in Christian Globe 22 Feb. 433/4 It was manlier than clinging to Britannia's skirts for protection against the Bogey Man with the triple tiara. 1919J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace 112 To confuse or weaken the Allies by using ‘Bolshevism’ as a bogey-word. 1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 559/1 Bogy-haunted creatures who for fear of splitting an infinitive abstain from doing something quite different. 1954J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. vi. 121 The old bogey-stories Fatty's nurses used to tell him. 1959Listener 16 Apr. 657/2 Black children were brought up to believe that if they were naughty the white bogy-man would come and gobble them up.
Hence ˈbogydom, the domain of Old Bogy. ˈbogyism, the recognition of bogies. bogyˈphobia, dread of bogies.
1880Daily Tel. 2 Dec., A sulphurous odour..suggestive of bogeydom. 1876Athenæum 14 Oct. 495/3 The author seems to be a spiritualist, or, at least, to have a leaning to banshees and bogyism. 1872Livingstone in Daily News 29 July, I am not liable to fits of bogiephobia.
▪ II. bogy2, bogey2 Austral. slang.|ˈbəʊgɪ|
Also bogie.
[App. Aboriginal word.]
a. A bathe.
b. A bathing-place, a bath. Also attrib. Hence as v. intr., to bathe; so ˈbogying vbl. n.
1849A. Harris Emigrant Family viii. 145 ‘Bogie,’ I suppose must be aboriginal also... Its signification is a bathe. 1893K. Mackay Out Back iv. 50, I don't care to bogey in our drinking tank. 1928‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country (1966) ii. 24 They..took her for bogeys in the swimming hole. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 13 June 19/4 Blacks on the tidal creeks and rivers of Queensland prefer to bogey when the tide is on the ebb. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 11 Bogie, a swim, a bath, or wash. (2) A swimming hole, a bath. Also, ‘bogiehole’, ‘bogiehouse’. 1945― Austral. Lang. xiii. 223 Then there are the aboriginal words which we have borrowed and extended in meaning, e.g. bogie or bogey, to bathe, from which we have taken bogiehole, a swimming hole, bogiehouse, a bathroom, and bogieing, bathing. 1946F. D. Davison Dusty viii. 82 They went down for a bogey on warm days.
▪ III. bogy
var. bogie, obs. form of budge n., fur. |