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Meanings of bogeyman in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bugbear"
Examples for "bugbear"
1
Picture: Steve Humphreys The minister has a bugbear about leaks in politics.
2
However, my biggest bugbear is something that we as citizens cannot control.
3
That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded.
4
Talk also turned to a long-running bugbear of Schaeuble's: corporate tax avoidance.
5
The guard house was a bugbear to the boys of the Institute.
1
Only in sex matters has it succeeded in keeping the bugaboo alive.
2
Throughout Pleasant Valley the very name of Grumpy Weasel was a bugaboo.
3
Dead men: not even the Jesuits had erased the old Apache bugaboo.
4
But they have one bugaboo, and that is the wild dog.
5
That's been a bugaboo ever since I came to the lake.
1
Mouse wipes it on the blanket as if it were a booger.
2
Something else as well: a large green booger, damp and threaded with blood.
3
I had heard about the 'booger man' and learned better then.
4
She had the tiniest beginning of a booger up her nose.
5
Gotta love it when somone goes for the booger and studies it once finished.
1
The Anvil was just a huge boogeyman after all, like you said.
2
He was her boogeyman, the fount of all her miseries and unhappiness.
3
Yes, this area of the river was an inspiration, not a lurking boogeyman.
4
When they even give your middle name, you know you're an authentic boogeyman.
5
Then Eddie G's boogeyman turns up in Dallas, at my shop.
Usage of bogeyman in English
1
As Immigration and Home Affairs Minister, he's had to be a bogeyman.
2
Jack thought of Elroy, the bogeyman of the Oatley Tap, and shuddered.
3
The unemployed man has become a bogeyman, a warning to disgruntled employees.
4
The bandstand, a combination of two jumps, proved the day's biggest bogeyman.
5
Blatherskites were gossips, murfles were freckles and Old Harry was a bogeyman.
6
I was sick of it-sickof being scared of the bogeyman's dick.
7
Louth folk in search of a bogeyman might want to start looking elsewhere.
8
Thus did Mark Fuhrman become the indispensable bogeyman in the defense team's strategy.
9
Just let Hektor get away with turning me into the bogeyman?
10
The bogeyman of booze did not hold back on Thursday afternoon.
11
Going to court is like a bogeyman for them, Abdulridha added.
12
He became a household name, a bogeyman of the western world.
13
Fear, but not of the bogeyman, of what I was about to do.
14
He is to their race what the bogeyman is to yours.
15
Like the bogeyman her brothers used to tell her about to scare her.
16
You became the bogeyman of all little vampires everywhere, Ms. Blake.
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Bogeyman through the time
Bogeyman across language varieties
United States of America
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