The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bullbeggar
Bullbeggar \Bull"beg`gar\, n. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from
the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the
forward children in the parish.
--Mountfort
(1691).
Wiktionary
bullbeggar
n. (context obsolete English) Something used or suggested to produce terror; a bugbear.
Usage examples of "bullbeggar".
Ye're standing on the banks o' Creech Hill and a bullbeggar haunts here sometimes.
I can’t remember all of them, but he talked about bullbeggars and Jack-in-Irons, and the Wild Hunt, which was scary, and about the Black Dog, and a weird thing called the Hedley Kow.