bogeyman
çekim: çoğul Butzemänner · tamlayan Butzemannes
eş: Butz, Butze, Buschemann, Bütze, Putz, Boz
köken: From Butz (“goblin”) + Mann (“man”).
bogeyman (menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories)
çekim: çoğul croque-mitaines
köken: "The mitten biter," from croque (“bite, crunch”) + mitaine (“mitten”).
coconut · testicle · US dollars
çekim: çoğul cocos
eş: cocotero, bola, cojón, huevo, pelota, testículo
köken: From sense 2 (“skull, head”), because of the resemblance of the fruit to a grinning face.
aile: aceite de coco, agua de coco, coco de Indias, coco de Levante, coco rallado, cocotal, cocotero, comecocos, coquito, leche de coco
ogre · bogeyman · Muppet (a puppet by Jim Henson)
bogeyman, bugbear, some kind of ghost figure used to scare children
çekim: çoğul bietebauwen
eş: bullebak
köken: Compound of bijten + -e- + bauw. The ie is a dialectal realisation of ij.
bogeyman (menacing, ghost-like monster in children’s stories)
çekim: çoğul bichos-papões
köken: From bicho (“beast”) + papão (“glutton”). The legend says the creature would come at night to eat mischievous children, thus originating its name.
bogeyman, bugbear (menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories) · bogeyman, bugbear (imaginary source of dread or fear)
çekim: çoğul μπαμπούλες · tamlayan μπαμπούλα
eş: φόβητρο
köken: Byzantine Greek μπαμπούλας (mpampoúlas), of uncertain origin. Possibly onomatopoeic.
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bogeyman (a monster in stories)
köken: From English bogeyman.
bogeyman · a children's game where one child is blindfolded and must catch the other children
çekim: tamlayan czarnego luda
köken: Literally, “dark person”.
bogeyman, bugbear (imaginary creature meant to inspire fear in children)
çekim: çoğul möröt · tamlayan mörön
köken: Cognate with Karelian mörkö. Possibly derived from the onomatopoeic verb möristä, or alternatively borrowed from Swedish mörk (“dark, murky”).
bogeyman, spook
çekim: çoğul bubáci · tamlayan bubáka
eş: strašidlo
köken: Compare dialectal Polish babok.
aile: bubáctví, bubákův
imaginary creature used to scare small children, bogeyman.
köken: Duplication of bau. Compare Italian babau (“bogeyman”).
çekim: çoğul krampuszok
köken: From German Krampus.
Latince 🔊 larva (dişil) /ˈɫaːr.wa/ spooky ghost, haunt, evil spirit, terror · horrific mask · banquet ghost: a skeleton doll with movable joints seated at the banquet table at Roman parties in a fashion that came about in the 1st century AD
çekim: çoğul lārvae · tamlayan lārvae
köken: Possibly from Lār (“Etruscan praenomen; titulary god”), usu. as Lares (“guardian deities”), but vowel length gradation unexplained.
aile: lārvālis, lārvāns, lārvō
bogeyman; generic frightening figure
çekim: çoğul bøhmænd · tamlayan bøhmands
köken: bøh (“boo”) + mand (“man”)
bugaboo, bugbear (a vague supernatural being, malevolent spirit) · booger, boogie (dried up lump of tat on the nose)
çekim: çoğul kollid · tamlayan kolli
köken: From Proto-Finnic *koljoi.
bogeyman (fantastic creature used to scare children)
çekim: çoğul papus
köken: From pap (“crop, craw”).
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bogeyman · oak gall · coconut
çekim: çoğul cocos
köken: From Latin coccum (“berry; gall; insect; scarlet dye”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “grain, seed, berry”).
aile: coco de luz