- if you spell "bogeyman" as "boogyman" in the States , does that mean you pronounce it as with an "ooo" too? - That sounds more like a dancer than a frightening made up creature:
1an imaginary evil creature used in stories for frightening children
The bogeyman’s going to get you.
Thesaurus entry for this meaning of bogeyman
2someone or something that people believe is bad and causes problems
The newspapers had portrayed him as the new economic bogeyman
<crying-laugh> This was one hit a personal note with me!!! I am laughing way to hard....it hurts....please stop<sniffle>.
Side note to Staff-Sergent "Bogey": Sorry that I didn't take up the Christmas dinner your wife offered moons ago....company politics, eh?! Steve Jobs said it so elegantly, paraphrasing him, "...You can never connect the dots looking forward....only looking back!!!"