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Bogeyman   Listen
noun
Bogeyman, Boogeyman  n.  Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc. "Go to sleep or the Boogeyman will get you."
Synonyms: Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow; booger; bugaboo; bugbear.






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"Bogeyman" Quotes from Famous Books



... dark to fetch your work-basket, you remind him of Columbus, who braved the trackless sea and the unknown void in the West, and you exhort him to be a man; but when Johnny was younger you yourself warned him that the Bogeyman would get him if be did not go right to sleep. And it is not very long since the day when he tried to climb the cherry tree and you attempted to dissuade him with the alarming prophecy that he would surely fall ...
— Your Child: Today and Tomorrow • Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg



Words linked to "Bogeyman" :   bugaboo, monster



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