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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn: bogeyman , bugaboo , boogeyman , booger ] 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bugbear is a legendary creature, comparable to the Bogeyman. Bugbear may refer to: Bugbear (Dungeons & Dragons) , creature in the Dungeons & Dragons series Bugbear Entertainment , a Finnish video game company Bugbears (album) , an album by Darren Hayman ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, a sort of demon in the form of a bear that eats small children, also "object of dread" (whether real or not), from obsolete bug "goblin, scarecrow" (see bug (n.)) + bear (n.).
Usage examples of bugbear.
Now your blade is enchanted and can rend the flesh of any magical creature: harpies, liches, bugbears, anything.
After the crisis at Muenster, though the Anabaptists continued to be a bugbear to the ruling classes, their propaganda lost its dangerously revolutionary character.
English, and trotted along as blithely over the deserted road as if not a fear had ever terrified their childish hearts, and as if English soldiers were still simply those far-off monsters that had served as bugbears to frighten them now and then into obedience to maternal authority.
Nor would it be truthful to say that Ridley was set free from his bugbear forever.
CHAPTER XX Not far from the dark-haloed indeterminate limbo where dwelt that bugbear of Charles Courtier, the great Half-Truth Authority, he himself had a couple of rooms at fifteen shillings a week.
This was a bugbear of the Reverend John's, and she was convinced that Hector had inherited it.
Gubtils' that they forgot all their fears of the terrible English, and trotted along as blithely over the deserted road as if not a fear had ever terrified their childish hearts, and as if English soldiers were still simply those far-off monsters that had served as bugbears to frighten them now and then into obedience to maternal authority.
He had found his short spear and his spear-throwing stick, which the humanoids called an atl-atl. He was taking aim on Ripple's retreating back when Trap whipped out a stone and sent it flying toward the bugbear.
He tossed the pins into the air and uttered a mystic syllable, then groaned as a bolt of lightning exploded from his chest and arced to the closest bugbear.
Once again, the threat of the Iranian bugbear, coupled with the strong sense that the administration's approach to containment was working (if it ain't broke, don't fix it) quashed the efforts of the hard-liners to push U.
By the time the bugbear came back down, still standing but quite winded, Pikel was behind the monster and had realigned his grip on the club.
In another document, Baines speaks of ‘the horrible blasphemies uttered by Christopher Marlowe’, and goes on to state that ‘in every company he cometh he persuades men and women to Atheism, willing them not to be afeard of bugbears and hobgoblins and utterly scorning both God and his ministers’.