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单词 boogieman
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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.
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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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