Meaning of おじゃすみなさい vs おやすみなさい/おやすみ?


I saw this on an app, and I was a bit confused. I know goodnight in Japanese
is usually おやすみなさい, or the less formal form, おやすみ, but what exactly does
おじゃすみなさい mean? Is it some slang way of saying goodnight, or does it have some
other meaning. The unreliable Google translated it as meaning "I'm sorry",
which I surely don't trust, as it's almost never accurate. So is it a slang
term, or did the person just write it wrong?




Years ago, in the age before the iPhone, my wife had a DoCoMo flip-phone with
a Java-based OS. When you opened the phone, a cartoon bear character would
appear and say some things. I think he was called クーマン or something like that.
He “spoke” with a lisp of sorts, saying things like おはようございまふ and 行きまふぉう！

Depending on the app, おじゃすみなさい might be a deliberate affectation intended to
show a funny pronunciation — maybe a lisp, or a stuffy nose, that kind of
thing.

As others have noted, おじゃすみなさい is not itself a meaningful phrase. And
**never** trust Google Translate. It is capable of some really bizarre and
unhelpful “translations”, especially for shorter strings.

