Usage of "boogeyman" | TermGallery

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An imaginary monster used to frighten children.

Uso de boogeyman em inglês

The Anvil was just a huge boogeyman after all, like you said. 
 Nemesis 

He was her boogeyman, the fount of all her miseries and unhappiness. 
 Man in the Middle 

Yes, this area of the river was an inspiration, not a lurking boogeyman. 
 Down river 

When they even give your middle name, you know you're an authentic boogeyman. 
 End of Watch 

Then Eddie G's boogeyman turns up in Dallas, at my shop. 
 11/22/63 

Every corner of the military community has its own boogeyman. 
 Wired 

Old Man Ravenwood was the boogeyman of Gatlin, a story I'd heard since kindergarten. 
 Beautiful creatures 

With that, local media at odds with the government crowned him the new radical boogeyman. 
 Reuters 

For more than a year, there were few consequences for Trump invoking an Islamic boogeyman. 
 Reuters 

For so many years he was my personal boogeyman. 
 Darkness unleashed 

We're all civilized, reasonably well-educated adults, and adults aren't supposed to believe in the boogeyman. 
 Phantoms 

Fathers were a myth where I grew up; a legend, kind of like the boogeyman. 
 Ebony 

Certainly you'd kick the boogeyman's ass and flex-cuff him. 
 Acts of nature 

Wendy was only scared of the boogeyman summoned up by a single hysterical little boy. 
 The Shining 

Jude could believe in a ghost but not a boogeyman, a pure incarnation of evil. 
 Heart-shaped box 

Now, conflict between the United States and its trading partners appears to be markets' biggest boogeyman. 
 Reuters 

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Boogeyman ao longo do tempo

Boogeyman nas variantes da língua

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Significados de boogeyman em inglês