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bogeyland

noun

Etymology

From bogey + -land.

  1. derived from *bugja-✻ — “swollen up, thick”
  2. derived from bwg
  3. derived from bugge
  4. suffixed as bogeyland — “bogey + land”

Definitions

  1. Part of the terrain of a golf course, or (figurative) a situation, that leads to a player…

    Part of the terrain of a golf course, or (figurative) a situation, that leads to a player achieving no better than a bogey.

    • Even worse than the sand, though, was the grassy bank that comes down between the bunkers, where the rough was so thick it amounted to bogeyland.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA