The word "bogeyman" is correct in written English.
It is often used to refer to a mythical creature or figure that is used to frighten children or to symbolize an unseen threat. Example: "The bogeyman is often invoked by parents to encourage children to behave." Alternatives include "boogeyman" and "phantom."
"We are monitoring everything – air, water, soil, seismicity, birds, all those good things – to show there is not some great bogeyman out there," Vaughan says.
The mother-of-a-school-shooter tale is a kind of early-aughts bogeyman.
Crude tactics Battlechips Jailing the bogeyman Who needs paper?
Businesspeople are under scrutiny as they have not been for 30 years and bankers are everyone's favourite bogeyman.
Even ending up as a substantial opposition party in Kashmir may help the BJP show Muslim voters in other states, for example, in Bihar, West Bengal or Uttar Pradesh, that it is no bogeyman for Muslims.
But I do think he ought to stop waving at a fantastic vision of a Europe that doesn't exist when he needs a bogeyman for whatever point he's trying to score in an argument.
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, the pro-Nazi Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who is the chief bogeyman of many pro-Israel histories, comes across as a weak leader with far less influence than is usually ascribed to him.
The bogeyman "non-dom" status will be abolished and a mansion tax levied on properties worth more than £2m.Naturally Labour has policies designed to appeal across the income scale, such as its vow not to increase the basic rate of tax and its plan to freeze energy prices.
Long before the Polish plumber became a bogeyman, neighbours like France fretted about competition from cheap Spanish tomatoes and bricklayers.
This includes a co-opted loyal opposition as well as the officially outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, which has long served as a bogeyman to frighten doubters, including Western donors, into grudging support for the ageing president and his government.Mr ElBaradei is also fortunate that one of the few chinks in the armour of Mr Mubarak's state is a relatively free press.
For though the Bank of England will pay for the purchases by crediting the accounts of commercial banks, it is creating money just as surely as if it were printing notes.The policy may jangle inflationary nerves but it is in fact designed to combat deflation, the new bogeyman.
