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bogeyman

EnglishEdit

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Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From bogey +‎ -man.

NounEdit

bogeyman (plural bogeymen)

A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.
(by extension) Any make-believe threat, especially one used to intimidate or distract.

The alleged link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda turned out to be a bogeyman.

TranslationsEdit

menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories

Catalan: home del sac m
Chinese:

Mandarin: 怪物 (zh) (guàiwù), 魔鬼 (zh) (móguǐ)
Czech: bubák m
Danish: bussemand c, bøhmand c
Esperanto: infantimigulo
Estonian: koll
Finnish: mörkö (fi)
French: croque-mitaine (fr) m
German: Butzemann m
Hungarian: krampusz (hu)
Japanese: ブギーマン (bugīman), 小鬼 (ja) (こおに, ko-oni)

Jèrriais: croque-mitaine m, barbou m
Latgalian: buba
Latvian: bubulis
Lithuanian: baubas, bubulis
Norwegian: busemann m
Portuguese: bicho-papão m
Russian: бука (ru) f (búka), бабай (ru) m (babáj), страшилище (ru) n (strašílišče), домовой (ru) m (domovój) (in Slavic mythology)
Serbo-Croatian: babaroga f, бабарога f
Spanish: coco (es), cuco (es) m
Turkish: gulyabani (tr), hortlak (tr), öcü (tr)

any make-believe threat

Danish: bussemand c, bøhmand c
Finnish: mörkö (fi)

Russian: пугало (ru) n (púgalo)

See alsoEdit

bugbear

AnagramsEdit

moneybag

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