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- An imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
{ Bug`a*boo" (&?;), 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, 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.
Syn. -- Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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