Crossword clues for bugbear
bugbear
- Plant listening device in pub, catching English bête noire
- Pet hate of insect and omnivorous mammal?
- Pet hate
- Insect on animal's a source of annoyance
- In nightmare perversely argue with two bishops
- Imaginary source of fear
- Source of anxiety
- Object of apprehension
- Nasty goblin — cause of fear
- Continuing source of irritation
- An object of terror, dislike or annoyance
- Hobgoblin
- Continuing annoyance
- *Bogeyman
- An imaginary monster used to frighten children
- Tiny relative of a grizzly?
- Concealed mike at Paddington, provoking great annoyance?
- Cause of obsessive fear
- Cause of irritation
- Carry infection at the front? It’s a nightmare!
- Nightmare with stomach after illness?
- Nasty goblin - cause of fear
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bugbear \Bug"bear`\, n.
Same as Bugaboo. -- a. Causing needless fright.
--Locke.
Bugbear \Bug"bear`\, v. t. To alarm with idle phantoms.
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
Wiktionary
alt. 1 An ongoing problem; a recurring obstacle or adversity. 2 A source of dread; resentment; or irritation. 3 An imaginary creature meant to inspire fear in children. n. 1 An ongoing problem; a recurring obstacle or adversity. 2 A source of dread; resentment; or irritation. 3 An imaginary creature meant to inspire fear in children. vb. (context transitive English) To alarm with idle phantoms.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A bugbear is a legendary creature or type of hobgoblin comparable to the bogeyman (or bugaboo or babau), and other creatures of folklore, all of which were historically used in some cultures to frighten disobedient children.
The bugbear is a type of fictional monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
A bugbear is depicted as a massive humanoid distantly related to goblins and hobgoblins. Named for the bugbear of legend, the bugbears of Dungeons & Dragons are goblinoid creatures, larger and stronger than hobgoblins.
Gary Gygax adapted the bugbear, and introduced the creature to the game in the 1975 Greyhawk supplement; the creature has since appeared in every subsequent edition of the game, including the game's first edition, second edition, third edition, fourth edition, and fifth edition.
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
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’.