originally "dance to boogie music," a late 1960s style of rock music (based on blues chords), from earlier boogie, a style of blues (1941), short for boogie-woogie (1928), a reduplication of boogie, 1917, which meant "rent party" in Amer.Eng. slang.So why fear the boogie man? Hell, I want him to come to my next rent party, right?
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Pointless question
Why the hell is "the boogie man" supposed to be scary? The etymology of boogie is as follows:
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pointless question, but there's still an answer ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman
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