Found 3 items, similar to Bugbear.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bugbear
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bugbear
bugbear
n 1: an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn:
bogeyman,
bugaboo,
boogeyman,
booger]
2: an object of dread or apprehension;
“Germany was always a
bugbear for France”;
“A foolish consistency is the
hobgoblin of little minds”--Ralph Waldo Emerson [syn:
hobgoblin]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bugbear
Bugbear
\Bug"bear`\, n.
Same as
Bugaboo. -- a. Causing needless fright. --Locke.
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Bugbear
\Bug"bear`\, v. t.
To alarm with idle phantoms.
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Bugaboo
\Bug`a*boo"\, Bugbear
\Bug"bear`\, n. [See
Bug.]
Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that
causes needless fright; something used to excite needless
fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary
monster, used to frighten children, etc.
“Bugaboos to fright
ye.” --Lloyd.
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But, to the world no bugbear is so great
As want of figure and a small estate. --Pope.
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The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. --S. B.
Griffin.
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The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. --J.
Burroughs.
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2. a source of concern; as, the old bugaboo of inflation
still bothers them.
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Syn: Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow; bogeyman;
boogeyman; booger.
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