Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bogeyland

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bo-gey-land
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Colloquial; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From bogey + -land.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: bogey

Usage

Questions

What does bogeyland mean?: Part of the terrain of a golf course, or (figurative) a situation, that leads to a player achieving no better than a bogey.
Where does bogeyland come from?: From bogey + -land.

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