boogeyman (noun) bugbear: ghost
Sinonime: -nouns
circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding (circuition); zigzag (deviation).
-verbs
perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a detour; meander (deviate)., lead a pretty dance; beat about the bush; make two bites of a cherry.
-adjectives
circuitous, indirect, roundabout; zigzag (deviating); backhanded.
-adverbs
by a side wind, by an indirect course; in a roundabout way; from pillar to post.