Synonyms for bugbear

Grammar : Noun

Spell : buhg-bair

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌgˌbɛər

Top 10 synonyms for bugbear

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Définition of bugbear

Origin : 1580s, a sort of demon in the form of a bear that eats small children, also "object of dread" (whether real or not), from obsolete bug "goblin, scarecrow" (see bug (n.)) + bear (n.).

noun ghost

Example sentences :

I laughed at his bugbear and flung Colonel Corkran in his teeth.
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

If he has not ceased to be an idol, he has at any rate ceased to be a bugbear.
Extract from : « New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 » by Various

The chest was soon filled with quilts and that bugbear was gone from her life.
Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers

I will keep each faction in awe by the bugbear of the other's supremacy.
Extract from : « The Infernal Marriage » by Benjamin Disraeli

We hear of the prevention of unemployment, the removal of the bugbear of "losing the job."
Extract from : « The Psychology of Nations » by G.E. Partridge

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure, and a small estate.
Extract from : « Essay on Man » by Alexander Pope

The state prison was only a bugbear then; but his father meant to do something.
Extract from : « In School and Out » by Oliver Optic

He has not used Buddhism either as a bugbear or as a beau idéal.
Extract from : « Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I » by Friedrich Max Mller

Often a wholesome restraint; but the bugbear of an inefficient officer.
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

In the meantime the bugbear of her existence was making history in his own way.
Extract from : « The Lady Doc » by Caroline Lockhart

Antonyms for bugbear

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