bogyman
Example Sentences
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The horseman’s advent is signaled by ominous clip-clopping of hooves and flickering lighting from one of the corners of the Signature’s thrust space, but we never actually see the bogyman himself.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2011
"This is the bogyman they have set up which is supposed to frighten the wits out of us."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Why didn't you bloomin' well harsk him if he weren't doin' ther imaginin' trick when he sent us chasin' hup ther main, hafter that bogyman of his?"
From The Ghost Pirates by Hodgson, William Hope
