From bogey + -man.
bogeyman (plural bogeymen)
- A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.
- (by extension) Any make-believe threat, especially one used to intimidate or distract.
2013, Frances Booth, The Distraction Trap:Before the Internet it was television. And, if not that, it was radio, films, or games. All have taken their turn as the popular bogeyman, blighting the minds of the young.
menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories
- Arabic:
- Moroccan Arabic: بوعو m (būʕʕu), بو خنشة m (bū ḵanša)
- Basque: hamalau-zaku
- Catalan: home del sac m, papu (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 怪物 (zh) (guàiwù), 魔鬼 (zh) (móguǐ)
- Czech: bubák (cs) m, strašák (cs) m, strašidlo (cs) n
- Danish: bussemand (da) c, bøhmand c
- Dutch: boeman (nl) m, bietebauw (nl) m
- Esperanto: infantimigulo
- Estonian: koll
- Finnish: mörkö (fi)
- French: croque-mitaine (fr) m
- Galician: sacaúntos m, coco (gl) m, sacamanteigas m, papón (gl) m
- German: Butzemann (de) m
- Greek: μπαμπούλας (el) m (bampoúlas)
- Ancient: μορμολυκεῖον n (mormolukeîon)
- Hungarian: krampusz (hu), mumus (hu)
- Italian: uomo nero, babau (it)
- Japanese: ブギーマン (bugīman), 小鬼 (ja) (こおに, ko-oni)
- Korean: 꼬마 도깨비 (kkoma dokkaebi), 부기맨 (bugimaen)
- Ladino: bambaruto
- Latgalian: buba
- Latin: larva f
- Latvian: bubulis
- Lithuanian: baubas, bubulis
- Norman: croque-mitaine m, barbou m
- Norwegian: busemann m
- Persian: لولو (fa) sg (lūlū)
- Polish: czarny lud m
- Portuguese: bicho-papão m, homem do saco m, papa-figos (pt) m
- Romanian: baubau (ro) m, omul negru m, gogoriță (ro)
- Russian: бу́ка (ru) f (búka), баба́й (ru) m (babáj), страши́лище (ru) n (strašílišče), домово́й (ru) m (domovój) (in Slavic mythology), бу́гимен m (búgimɛn)
- Serbo-Croatian: babaroga (sh) f, бабарога f
- Spanish: coco (es), cuco (es) m, cucuy m, sacamantecas m, hombre del saco (es) m (Latin America)
- Tagalog: mumò, mumu (childish)
- Tajik: буҷӣ (bujī)
- Turkish: gulyabani (tr), hortlak (tr), öcü (tr), karakoncolos (tr), umacı (tr)
- Vietnamese: ngoáo ộp (vi)
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