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bogeyism

noun

Etymology

From bogey + -ism.

  1. derived from *bugja-✻ — “swollen up, thick”
  2. derived from bwg
  3. derived from bugge
  4. suffixed as bogeyism — “bogey + ism”

Definitions

  1. Devilry

    Devilry; supernatural matters involving evil forces.

    • The author seems to be a spiritualist, or, at least, to have a leaning to banshees and bogyism.
    • Thus is experience laying bogyism in its grave, and the darkness of fear and trepidation born of ignorance is day by day giving away before the light of the knowledge derived from the truly herculean transmissions of the West.

  2. The portrayal of one's enemies as dreadful

    The portrayal of one's enemies as dreadful; scapegoating.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bogeyism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA