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Definition of Bogeymen
1. bogeyman [n] - See also: bogeyman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bogeymen
Literary usage of Bogeymen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1908)
"There were no bogeymen in the night-nursery at the beginning of the century.
One Aaron's rod of a bogey had swallowed all the rest, and children buried ..."
2. Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan by Michael Mandelbaum (1994)
"Islam ranked high, of course, on the Soviet list of bogeymen, as a challenge to
the atheist state, and as a constant rallying point of nationalism against ..."
3. Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on edited by Frank Murkowski (1999)
"Mr. Chairman, Senator Bryan will talk in more detail, but 2007 is one of these
bogeymen we have been hearing about for 20 years that we have got to do ..."
4. Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's by Stephen Windwalker (2002)
"By the late 1990s, the chain booksellers had dropped significantly on independent
booksellers' lists of the top 10 bogeymen. The new villain on the block ..."
5. Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"You know how sometimes the director just doesn't know when to quit, and the
bogeymen keep jumping out and yelling Boo, the wobbly bridges keep on collapsing ..."
6. Auxiliary Education by Bruno Maennel (1909)
"On the other hand, psychiatrists are too rare to be used as "bogeymen" to frighten
children who suffer chiefly from an excess ..."
7. Free at Last?: U.S. Policy Toward Africa and the End of the Cold War by Michael Clough (1992)
"... rewarding him for focusing on external bogeymen such as Libya's Mu'ammar Qadafi
and by encouraging him to believe (despite Washington's protests to the ..."
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