BOGEY
In golf if you "bogeyed" your score was 1 over par. A bogey is undesirable in golf. A birdie (one under par) or an eagle (2 under par) is swell. The lower the score in golf the better you do. That in itself is weird but that's a different issue entire. Why use bogey in such a context?
In elsewise otherwheres a BOGEY is a scary frightening threatening presence.
Same word. Did the language makers just run out of creative inspiration and so they make some words do double-duty? Lazy bums? Or verbally economical? It's NUTS! :(
