boogien.1
/ˈbuːɡi/, U.S. /ˈbʊɡi/ colloquial.
1. U.S. A menacing supernatural creature, esp. as invoked to frighten children; a goblin, bogey, or ghost. Cf. bogy n.1 2 and booger n.2 1.Recorded earliest in boogieman n. at Compounds.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin
thursec725
puckOE
puckleOE
goblina1350
hurlewaynes kin1399
Hoba1500
bogle?1507
chimera?1521
hobgoblin1530
chyppynutie?1553
bearbug1560
boggard1570
bugbear?c1570
empusa1572
puckerelc1580
puck bug1582
imp1584
urchin1584
fear-babea1586
hob-thrush1590
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lar1598
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bogle-bo1603
mormo1605
foliot1621
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pug1631
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feind1659
Tom Poker1673
duende1691
boodie?a1700
worricow1711
bolly1724
Tom Po1744
fleying1811
pooka1824
booger1827
alp1828
boll1847
bogy1857
beastie1867
boogie1880
shag boy1882
1880 J. P. Skelly Boogie Man (sheet music) 5 Look-out for the Boogie man.
1895 M'lle N.Y. Nov. It's the ghost of a Purple Turtle coming to take ocky Maddy away to the Boogies.
1944 A. Mélançon Carl iv. 25 If I let you protect me from the boogies, you won't be afraid to return home from the station by yourself?
1981 S. King Danse Macabre i. 15 The terror—the real terror, as opposed to whatever demons and boogeys which might have been living in my own mind—began on an afternoon in October of 1957.
2006 Star News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 22 Oct. 4 d A taut narrative with..supernatural boogies that seem fresher and more original than the usual shopworn monsters.
2. Originally and chiefly U.S. A piece of nasal mucus. Cf. bogy n.1 5 and booger n.2 2.
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1890 Dial. Notes 1 18 Boogie, ball of mucus in the nose.
1984 D. Barry Babies & Other Hazards Sex xi. 85/1 Your child is going to want to know if Jackie Paper had boogies coming out of his nose.
1997 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 17 There is nothing gross about Harriet the Spy—no kids picking boogies from their noses, no poo or fart jokes and no exploding heads.
2015 Scholastic Parent & Child (Electronic ed.) Apr. 32 Got a chronic pick-and-eater? Address the cause of the boogies.
Compounds
boogieman n. (now often in form boogeyman) originally and chiefly U.S. an imaginary evil spirit or being, esp. as invoked to frighten children (cf. bogy-man at bogy n.1 Compounds, boogerman n. at booger n.2 Compounds); (also figurative) an object of fear or hostility.
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1880 J. P. Skelly Boogie Man (sheet music) 5 Look-out for the Boogie man.
1939 C. Odets Rocket to Moon 381 You frightened me! Frenchy: I'm a boogey man.
1989 C. Boylan Concerning Virgins (1990) 65 Her eyes bulged at me as if I was a boogie man.
2018 N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 24 Jan. c1 His recent fiction goes after predictable boogeymen: social media's encroachment on privacy.., say, or addiction.
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boogien.2
/ˈbuːɡi/, U.S. /ˈbʊɡi/ U.S. slang (derogatory and offensive). Now somewhat rare.
A black person.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]
AfriceOE
MoorOE
EthiopOE
blomana1225
Ethiopiana1325
blue mana1387
Moriana1387
black mana1398
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black Morian1526
black boy1530
molen1538
Nigro1548
Nigrite1554
Negro1555
neger1568
nigger1577
blackfellow1598
Kaffir1607
black1614
thick-lipsa1616
Hubsheea1627
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blackface1704
sambo1704
Cuffee1713
Nigritian1738
fellow1753
Cuff1755
blacky1759
mungo1768
Quashie1774
darkie?1775
snowball1785
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Moriscan1794
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Siddi1849
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Negroid1860
kink1865
Sam1867
Rastus1882
schvartze1886
race man1896
possum1900
shine1908
jigaboo1909
smoke1913
golliwog1916
jazzbo1918
boogie1923
jig1924
melanoderm1924
spade1928
jit1931
Zulu1931
eight ball1932
Afro1942
nigra1944
spook1945
munt1948
Tom1956
boot1957
soul brother1957
nig-nog1959
member1962
pork chop1963
splib1964
blood1965
non-voter1966
moolinyan1967
Oreo1968
boogaloo1972
pongo1972
moolie1988
1923 Confessions of Bank Burglar vii. 40 Three coons came into the barn..the three of them took a drink and then put the bottle in the hay... At noon the ‘boogies’ came in for another shot.
1928 R. Fisher Walls of Jericho i. 13 ‘This boogy,’ explained Bubber, ‘thinks he's bad. Come slippin' me 'bout my family. He knows I don't play nuthin' like that.’
1937 E. Hemingway To have & have Not iii. xiv. 205 I seen that big boogie there mopping it up.
1965 N. Mailer Amer. Dream (1966) viii. 245 Report of a boogie going ape in her room... The Puerto Ricans were screaming.
1992 R. C. Cruz Straight outta Compton 57 One of the participating officers, ‘How else can you capture a boogie?’
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boogien.3
/ˈbuːɡi/, U.S. /ˈbʊɡi/ Originally U.S.
1. colloquial. Chiefly in African-American usage: a party with drinking and dancing, esp. a house party for which money or alcoholic drink is asked in return for admission; = house rent party n. at house rent n. Compounds 2. Frequently in to pitch a boogie: to throw a party. Now rare.
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society > leisure > social event > fund-raising events > [noun] > rent party
parlour social1883
house party1923
house rent party1925
rent party1925
stomp1926
boogie1929
shake1946
skiffle1946
1929 W. Ezell Pitchin’ Boogie (transcribed from song) We're gonna pitch a boogie right here.
1960 P. Oliver Blues fell this Morning vi. 163 He re-christened the [boogie-woogie] style after the ‘boogies’ or parties on the South Side.
1976 G. Oakley Devil's Music 163 When rent day was due, you ‘pitched a boogie’, inviting the neighbours round and charging an entrance fee of perhaps a quarter and a jug of gin.
2. Originally: a style of playing blues, usually on the piano, characterized by fast, continuously repeating bass rhythms accompanying an independent improvised melody; = boogie-woogie n. Later also: any kind of music whose rhythm derives from this style, played on guitars or other instruments, esp. a kind of rock music originally popular in the late 1960s and 1970s. Frequently attributive.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances to specific popular music > [noun]
rag dance1892
rag1899
jazzing1917
shey-sheyc1920
juking1937
boogie1940
rocking1948
rock 'n' rolling1956
rock 'n' roll1958
monkey1963
ska1964
boogaloo1965
rocksteady1967
reggae1968
skank1974
salsa1975
skanking1976
Macarena1995
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > folk music > [adjective] > blues
bluesy1933
boogie1940
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > folk music > [noun] > blues
blues1912
rhythm and blues1924
folk-blues1926
bottleneck blues1928
policy blues1928
R&B1949
boogie1976
1940 Variety 17 Apr. 40/4 Harry James and Jack Teagarten cuttings..will be released by Columbia soon. James made ‘Backbeat Boogie’ and ‘Night Special’.
1941 Brunswick Rec. Catal. 6 (title) Scrub me, Mama with a Boogie Beat.
1960 20th Cent. Dec. 560 Negro boogie pianists.
1976 Gramophone Sept. 493/1 Among the newer exponents of southern white ‘boogie’..the Amazing Rhythm Aces and the Atlantic Rhythm Section stand out.
1983 W. Mellers Beethoven & Voice of God ii. iv. 261 The syncopated chords hold the breath against the upward-thrusting and downward-quivering arpeggios, which incorporate acridly sharp leading notes into their boogie rhythm.
2013 Radio Times 9 Nov. (South/West ed.) 62/3 The band's heads-down boogie was part of the definitive sound of UK rock in the 1970s.
3. colloquial. The action or an act of dancing, esp. to boogie-woogie music, or to any variety of strongly rhythmical popular music, as swing, jazz, disco, rock, etc.; a dance of this sort. Also in extended use.
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1942 C. Himes in Opportunity Nov. 349/1 I can stop in front of a joint where the jukebox's playing and cut a step of off-time boogie.
1943 J. A. Hyland Dove flies South (1945) vii. 160 The waitress dropped the coins in the juke-box and stood in front of the machine doing a dance George heard them call the boogie.
1954 Daily Rev. (Towanda, Pa.) 7 Dec. 3/2 He never saw Lottie dance at Mungy's but claimed that he saw her do the ‘boogie’ at a number of other places.
1956 G. P. Kurath in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 107/1 Jitterbugging..during the Boogie-Woogie musical period..was known as Boogie.
1974 P. Southgate tr. B. Blier Going Places 257 The tip of my big toe was doing a boogie on the brakes.
1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 29 Sept. A lime-green plush toy..drove a golf cart around the bases, braked, climbed out and danced a boogie with an overstuffed umpire.
2004 Zest Dec. 118/2 Choose a club you know you all love and hit the dancefloor—a good boogie can burn up 400 calories.
Compounds
boogie box n. colloquial (originally U.S.) (a) a piano (rare, now disused); (b) a large portable stereo radio and cassette or CD player (now somewhat dated); cf. boom box n. at boom n.1 Compounds.
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1937 Down Beat Dec. 47/2 On the left Mel Hencke who plays a little bit of alright on the ‘boogie box’ is seated directly above Jimmie.
1941 Collier's Weekly 20 Dec. 26/1 We got a little novelty number. A terrific break on the toms! Strictly bucket with a boogie-box background!
1980 Washington Post 21 Aug. b1/5 Radios are not going away... On the street, they're called boogie boxes by some. But at Radio Shack, mention ‘monsters’.
1986 M. Palin Diary 8 Oct. in Halfway to Hollywood (2009) 440 Tom is 18. We give him £84 towards a ‘boogie box’.
2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 Dec. My wife runs a..dance and mobility class..and she is finding it increasingly difficult to carry..her cassettes, CDs, and a 1990s boogie box to play them on.
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boogiev.
/ˈbuːɡi/, U.S. /ˈbʊɡi/ colloquial.
I. Senses relating to music, dancing, and parties.
1. intransitive. U.S. Originally (in African-American usage): to engage in drinking, revelry, etc.; to drink alcohol, esp. at a party (cf. boogie n.3 1). Later more generally (influenced by sense 3): to enjoy oneself, to have a good time; to ‘party’.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous
revelc1390
ragea1400
roara1450
jet?1518
tirl on the berry?1520
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domineer1592
ranta1616
roister1663
scour1673
tory-rory1685
scheme1738
to run the rig1750
gilravagea1760
splore?a1799
spree1859
to go on the (or a) bend1863
to flare up1869
to whoop it up1873
to paint the town (red)1882
razzle1908
to make whoopee1920
boogie1929
to beat it up1933
ball1946
rave1961
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > attending or giving party > attend or give party [verb (intransitive)]
party1922
boogie1929
fete1975
1929 W. Ezell Pitchin’ Boogie (transcribed from song) I swear to God she can boogie too mean.
1930 L. Bogan Alley Boogie (transcribed from song) It's the only thing I do to drown [or perhaps drive] away my blues; I boogie all night, all the night before, When I woke up this morning I want to boogie some more.
1977 Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 14 He was really straight and just startin' to come out and boogie.
1997 G. Pelecanos King Suckerman (1998) 32 Needs to get down a little. Boogie.
2. transitive. Originally U.S. With away. To dismiss or banish (troubles or cares) by dancing or by engaging in drinking, revelry, etc. Now usually: to pass or spend (a period of time) in this manner, esp. in to boogie the night away.
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1942 L. Hart Gateway of Temple of Minerva in D. Hart & R. Kimball Compl. Lyrics L. Hart (1986) 282/3 She sits on a throne In a joint of her own And boogies her troubles and cares away.
1978 Daily Mirror 12 Jan. 1/2 Night after night she flirts and boogies the hours away.
1990 P. Magubane et al. Soweto Portrait of City vi. 109 After a long day's work people seek out their own..to boogie away life's frustrations in the shebeens.
2010 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 17 May c4 Some 400 discomaniacs boogied the night away in support of the YMCA Strong Kids Campaign.
3. Originally U.S.
a. intransitive. To dance, esp. to strongly rhythmical popular music, as swing, jazz, disco, rock, etc. Cf. boogie n.3 3.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances to specific popular music > [verb (intransitive)]
rag1896
jazz1919
rock1931
juke1933
boogie1944
boogaloo1966
to rock out1966
skank1973
disco1976
hip-hop1983
1944 D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 36 Now, Homey, forget your mama, forget your papa too; And ‘boogie’ with real feeling ‘in a room where lights are blue’.
1947 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang Suppl. 8 Teen Talk and Jive Jargon... Dance, crack an ankle, crawl, give the dogs a workout... Spec. boog, boogie, jive, jump,..to ‘cut a rug’.
1955 W. de C. Broonzy & Y. Bruynoghe Big Bill Blues 30 Oh let's boogie, children, because Joe Turner's sure good to us.
1974 Time 24 June 83 They are up on the seats boogieing and running around the hall.
1985 S. Booth True Adventures Rolling Stones xvi. 150 There was no feeling of violence, only the desire to get close and boogie.
2012 Time Out N.Y. 17 May 26/1 You and some party-starting drag queens boogie on the dance floor.
b. intransitive. With following adverb or adverbial phrase, as to boogie on down.
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1975 Jet 7 Aug. 62 The Fatback Band: Here are the six people you need to boogie on down into the night.
1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic ii. 36 The guitar completed him, gave him the confidence and strength to rock out, boogie down and show off.
1999 Linedancer Jan. 43/1 It was our turn to ‘boogie on down’ until the early hours once again.
2016 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 30 You can boogie away to all the memorable tunes of the '60s, '70s and '80s.
II. To go, hurry, leave.
4. intransitive. Originally U.S. To move or go, esp. in a hurry; to escape. Frequently with down, on, out. Cf. bug v.3 1. Also figurative.In later use sometimes influenced by sense 3.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
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to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
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to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
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to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
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to put out1835
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cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
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nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1940 Pittsburgh Courier 3 Feb. 7/1 We will boogie on down to our king's row hideaway.
1970 J. Rubin Do It vii. 37 If you were lonely you could always boogie on down to the Vietnam Day Committee house and find somebody to talk to.
1983 Pure-bred Dogs, Amer. Kennel Gaz. Feb. 113/3 [The dog]..had boogied out of the pound and was on the lam.
1993 J. Wambaugh Finnegan's Week i. 14 Nothing worked, the killer had boogied.
2002 P. Vincent Baby Catcher (2003) iv. 129 Jill and Colin both boogied into the world before their due dates.
2014 Cambr. Evening News (Nexis) 3 June Locals boogied down to the centre on the High Street on Saturday to enjoy 70s music, food, drinks and sweets.
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