The bogeyman, also boogeyman and bogyman, is a ghost-like monster that children often believe is real.
The bogeyman has no specific appearance. He is sometimes equated with specific real-life persons, such as serial killer Albert Fish.
Sometimes parents will, as a way of controlling their children, encourage belief in a bogeyman that only preys on children who misbehave. Such bogeymen may be said to target a specific transgression—for instance, a bogeyman that persecutes children who suck their thumbs—or just general misbehaviour.
The term "bogeyman" is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of which someone else has an irrational fear.
Napoleon.org - fun stuff (http://www.napoleon.org/en/fun_stuff/dico/index.asp) (describing the origins of the term 'bogeyman' - an English reference to the infamous diminuitive Corsican conqueror)
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Take this man for instance: He's got the world's longest ear hair.
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