Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature. · The Devil. · A bugbear: any terrifying thing. · A police officer.
To make a bogey on (a particular hole).
Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence bug), itself of uncertain origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”); compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat”, older “fear”), Irish bagairt (“threat”), but perhaps the root was borrowed from Germanic. Otherwise from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”); compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge and Alemannic German Böögg (“goblin”, “snot”). See also Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), Old English pūca (“goblin, mischievous spirit”), Icelandic púki Swedish puke (“small devil, spook”), whence obsolete English puck. Perhaps the Middle English and Welsh words come from a word related to buck and originally referred to a goat-shaped specter. Compare also booger. The golf sense is from the devil as an imaginary player. The sometimes proscribed conflation with bandit was popularized by the 1986 film Top Gun.
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- Derivation mentionbuggeenm
- Derivation mentionbwgcy
- Cognate mentionbagairtga · threat
- Derivation mention*bugja-gem-pro · swollen up, thick
- Cognate mentionbuggeno · big man
- Cognate mentionBöggends
- Cognate mentionBöögggsw · goblin”, “snot
- Cognate mentionpūcaang · goblin, mischievous spirit
- Cognate mentionpúkiis
- Cognate mentionpukesv · small devil, spook
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