Boogie vs. Booger man?

Definitely the Boogie man.

Booger man? Entirely different mental image. Ew.

Booger man in very allergy prone environments, but I've always heard Boogie Man.

I've always seen it as bogeyman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman

Yup; I'm with Redhedd. It's Bogeyman in this country and yes, bogey also means 'snot'.

As in Fungus the Bogeyman.

I always thought it was something to do with Napoleon Bonaparte--English parents threatening naughty children that the Bogeyman--from Boneyman, I suppose--would come and get them. I've never seen boogie man. But since bogeyman itself is a corruption, it would be logical that it would be corrupted further.

Boogie of bogey here. But booger is snot, I wouldn't use it.

It's a derivative of bogle or bogill; Scots mythological critter of small stature and dangerous fierceness, cognate with bogart or boggart. Bogle man became bogie/boogy man, and, given the resemblance of the word booger, to some folks, boogerman.

We always said boogie, too.

I've always heard the ghostly figure that gets children as the bogey man. Bogey is also a golf term for one-over-par.
I've always thought of boogie as a type of music, short for boogie woogie, a variation of blues that has lived on in rock-and-roll.

And then for that OTHER word, there's this thing, suitable for mature children of all ages, under "DANCE OF THE SUGAR-BOOGER FAERIES":
http://www.buckyburro.com/main/songstories.htm
Lyrics (WARNING: Gross and explicit):
http://www.buckyburro.com/main/boogerama.htm
And you can hear the actual song "Boogerama" (WARNING: loud guitars and gross lyrics):
http://www.myspace.com/buckyburro

Great stuff for the ten-year-old in all of us...

i thought it was bogeyman but sounds like boogieman.

Boogerman was what I heard growing up. Nothing to do with snot. Seems like we heard people say Boogieman when the kids were really small. . .as they got a little older it was always Boogerman.

Somehow the boogie man just doesn't sound very scary after this.

I'm your boogie man, I'm your boogie man.
Turn me on!
I'm your boogie man, I'm your boogie man.
I'll do what you want.

KC and The Sunshine Band

and then there was Saturday Night Fever.

Fern said:

Boogerman was what I heard growing up. Nothing to do with snot. Seems like we heard people say Boogieman when the kids were really small. . .as they got a little older it was always Boogerman.

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Fern, that's interesting. I wonder if it's regional. What part of the country did you grow up in?

RumpleTumbler said:

Somehow the boogie man just doesn't sound very scary after this.

I'm your boogie man, I'm your boogie man.
Turn me on!
I'm your boogie man, I'm your boogie man.
I'll do what you want.

KC and The Sunshine Band

and then there was Saturday Night Fever.

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Exactly. I always said "boogerman" or boogeyman" but never boogie man unless of course he's dancing.........

JoniBGoode said:

Fern, that's interesting. I wonder if it's regional. What part of the country did you grow up in?

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I grew up in Oklahoma. All our acquaintances, family members, etc., referred to it as the booger man (sometimes as booger bear), or they might say something like "Don't go in there; the boogers will get you."

what about that race car driver/announcer that says "boogedie boogedie boo"? Maybe he knows. Or is that a line from some boogieman movie? I'm in NJ, and I've always heard it as "boogie"

I've always said boogie man (Midwest) but have always read it as bogeyman. I figured someone was just bein' formal.

An interesting concept a boogieing boogie man. Must admit I always used the spelling bogeyman but when it was said it sounded like boogieman.

"Bogey" and "bogeyman" are the direct descendants of an old Scottish word for ghost: "bogill." Oxford English Dictionary's cite is 1505, William Dunbar: "The love glance of that bogle, from his bleary eyes ...", or originally "The luif blenkis of that bogill, fra his blerde ene ..."
Bogle evolved into bogey or bogeyman, and as many have already noted correctly, is often "spelled like it sounds," or boogieman, in the big dictionary.

In addition to the golf score (one over par), the term was also used in WWII to designate an unidentified ("ghost") plane.

Cheerio.

Aye. If ye gaun oot in the dark, the bogles'll get ye.

(And a 'tattie-bogle' is the old name for a scare-crow.)

Boogie man. Boogers come from your nose.

takkunelwood said:

Boogie man. Boogers come from your nose.

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Only if he's dancing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, is a boogie bogey booger man a scary dancing guy made of snot?

I always said bogeyman.