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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bugaboo
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Termite damage is one of the many bugaboos of owning a house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt, the bugaboo of monopolists, had just been elected to a second term.
▪ One of the Unnamed Martyrs hurries home while, out of sight, three club-clutching bugaboos lie doggo.
▪ Sounds like dangling that ole lawsuit bugaboo.
▪ The second hazard is that old bugaboo, moisture, encouraging mildew growth and eventual decay.
▪ Without the Communist bugaboo, Dornan was exposed as the crackpot that he is.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bugaboo

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.

But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate.
--Pope.

The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray.
--S. B. Griffin.

The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl.
--J. Burroughs.

2. a source of concern; as, the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them.

Syn: Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow; bogeyman; boogeyman; booger.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bugaboo

1843, earlier buggybow (1740), probably an alteration of bugbear (also see bug (n.)), but connected by Chapman ["Dictionary of American Slang"] with Bugibu, demon in the Old French poem "Aliscans" from 1141, which is perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Cornish bucca-boo, from bucca "bogle, goblin").

Wiktionary
bugaboo

n. (alternative spelling of bug-a-boo English)

WordNet
bugaboo

  1. n. an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn: bogeyman, bugbear, boogeyman, booger]

  2. a source of concern; "the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them"

Wikipedia
Bugaboo

A Bugaboo is a legendary scary creature, see bogeyman

In geography:

  • The Bugaboos, a granite mountain range in the Purcell Mountains of eastern British Columbia, Canada
  • Bugaboo Canyon, a small canyon area off of McGee Creek in the McGee Creek Natural Scenic State Recreation Area of Oklahoma
    • Bugaboo Provincial Park, a park in that area
    • Bugaboo Spire is a peak in The Bugaboos.
  • Bugaboo Swamp is in the Okefenokee Swamp located in the southern portion of Georgia, United States.
    • Bugaboo scrub fire, a fire that was named for the above swamp.

In media

  • Bugaboo (The Flea), a 1983 game written for various 8-bit computers
  • Bug a Boo, a song by Destiny's Child
  • Bugaboo, a song by Japanese experimental metal band Dir En Grey off their 2008 album Uroboros
  • Bug-a-Booo is a comic strip by Mauricio de Sousa about a gang of ghosts, undeads and other Halloween creatures.

It may also refer to:

  • Bugaboo, a thin straight piton or metal spike, perfect for thin, deep seams.
  • Bugaboo International B.V., a Dutch design company that makes strollers for infants and toddlers.
  • A fictional swarm of insectoid aliens from the children's CGI television series Monster Buster Club
Bugaboo (The Flea)

Bugaboo (The Flea), later published in Spain as La Pulga, is a computer game created in by the Spanish team of programmers Paco & Paco for the Sinclair Spectrum. Later versions for the Commodore 64, Amstrad and MSX were produced. Bugaboo, besides being the first video game made in Spain, is one of the first computer games to include cut scenes. Its publication marked the official beginning of the Golden Era of Spanish Software. It was ported to the Amstrad CPC under the name Roland in the Caves, to exploit the CPC's recurring Roland character. A sequel was released in Spain by Opera Soft under the title “Poogaboo”, made by Paco Suarez, one of the authors of the original game. Paco Portalo, the other member of Paco & Paco, left the project after the publication of the original game for the ZX Spectrum.

The player takes control of a flea who has fallen into a cavern and must escape.

Usage examples of "bugaboo".

She talked knowledgeably about carbon dioxide scrubbers, carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, about the heating and cooling systems, and our biggest bugaboo, radiation.

And he taught me what a bugaboo Science can be in the mind of a man who, whatever his ill-luck and his limitations may have been, was simply a fool.

And uppermost on the pyre, whence moths were still escaping, stood, supported by beanpoles, the public scandal, the bugaboo, Baal tarred and feathered, the Great Cuckoo Bird.

Describe him, in order that, if we meet him by chance, like Bugaboo John or Lara, we may recognize him.

National Public Radio reporter Nina Totenberg described Saddam Hussein as a personal bugaboo of the president.

Here was the rape mania, the old bugaboo, one of the big keys to the whole Hell's Angels phenomenon.

Negro riots The possibility of a Hell's Angels' dope network brings up once again the old bugaboo of expansion.

It eventually began to make sense, along with dealing with some of the bugaboos mentioned earlier.

Durmond gave me a wry smile while I muddled over the remaining bugaboos that had been haunting me for several days.

Ogres and bugaboos and I had been happy bed-fellows, compared with these terrors that made their bed with me throughout my childhood, and that still bed with me, now, as I write this, full of years.

The easy transformation, like the nonsensically—impossibly—successful spontaneous mass uprising, are bugaboos of the left, of the liberals and of the Reds and the Greens.

The economic determinism of Marx is an exploded bugaboo, and the American people are the masters, not the slaves, of their economic system.