| 单词 | bogy-man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbogy-man attributive and in other combinations, as bogy-man, bogy-word, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary) buga1425 buggart1440 gay horse1483 bogle?1507 chimera?1521 bog1527 terriculament1548 bugbear1552 bull-bear1561 hag1563 boggard1574 scare-bug1583 bull-beggar1584 kill-cow fray1589 poker1598 bug-boy1601 bogle-bo1603 mormo1605 mock-beggar1611 mormolukee1624 Tom Poker1673 raw-head1678 hobgoblin1709 bugaboo1733 Tom Po1744 spectre1774 bogy-man1862 bogy1865 the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word hard word1533 household word1574 magic word1581 grandam words1598 signal word1645 book worda1670 wordie1718 my whole1777 foundling1827–38 keyword1827 Mesopotamia1827 thought-word1844 word-symbol1852 nursery word1853 pivot word1865 rattler1865 object word1876 pillow word1877 nonce-word1884 non-word1893 fossil1901 blessed word1910 bogy-word1919 catch-all1922 pseudo-word1929 false friend1931 plus word1939 descriptor1946 meta-word1952 discourse marker1967 shrub2008 1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv, in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 5/2 The old German bogy-painters. 1912 G. B. Shaw in Christian Globe 22 Feb. 433/4 It was manlier than clinging to Britannia's skirts for protection against the Bogey Man with the triple tiara. 1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace 112 To confuse or weaken the Allies by using ‘Bolshevism’ as a bogey-word. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 559/1 Bogy-haunted creatures who for fear of splitting an infinitive abstain from doing something quite different. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. vi. 121 The old bogey-stories Fatty's nurses used to tell him. 1959 Listener 16 Apr. 657/2 Black children were brought up to believe that if they were naughty the white bogy-man would come and gobble them up. < as lemmas |
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