英语词汇“boogieman”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

单词	boogieman
释义	> as lemmas boogieman 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. ΚΠ 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. extracted from boogien.¹ < as lemmas
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