1) Bane 2) Bogeyman 3) Booger 4) Boogeyman 5) Bugaboo 6) Bête noire 7) Bête noire 8) Ogre
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1) Bogeyman 2) Booger 3) Boogeyman 4) Bugaboo 5) Continuing annoyance 6) Exclusively Saxon word 7) Exclusively Anglo word 8) Fictional goblin 9) Goblin 10) Hobgoblin 11) Monster 12) Nuisance 13) Scarebabe 14) Source of anxiety 15) Tiny relative of a grizzly 16) Word of purely Anglo origin 17) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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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. ==Etymology== Its name is derived from a Middle English word `bugge` (a frightening thing), or perhaps the old Welsh word .....
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[Dungeons & Dragons] 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 G...
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• (n.) Same as Bugaboo. • (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. • (a.) Causing needless fright. • (v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms.
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Bug'bear` noun Same as
Bugaboo . --
adjective Causing needless fright.
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Bug'bear` transitive verb To alarm with idle phantoms.
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[
n] - an object of dread or apprehension
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hobgoblin noun 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
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any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear. · a persistent problem or source of annoyance. · a goblin that eats up naughty children.
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