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bugbear
[ buhg-bair ]
noun
- any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear.
- a persistent problem or source of annoyance.
- Folklore. a goblin that eats up naughty children.
bugbear
/ ˈʌɡˌɛə /
noun
- a thing that causes obsessive fear or anxiety
- (in English folklore) a goblin said to eat naughty children and thought to be in the form of a bear
Word History and Origins
Origin of bugbear1
Example Sentences
A prime bugbear for those unhappy with micro-managed football is the changing role of the goalkeeper, with many teams now preferring to build slowly from the back rather than launching quick attacks.
She has become something of a bugbear to right-wing media in the weeks since the fires and faced explicitly racist and gender-based blitzing on social media.
The Trump administration is wasting no time in targeting conservative bugbears.
The lack of a striker is still the great bugbear.
The former president spent much of his speech at Madison Square Garden on Sunday railing against a now familiar bugbear: supposed "enemies from within" the United States.
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