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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
/ ˈ²úʌɡˌ²úɛə /
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
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Origin of bugbear1
C16: from bug ² + bear ²; compare bugaboo
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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.
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The Trump administration is wasting no time in targeting conservative bugbears.
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The lack of a striker is still the great bugbear.
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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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With roughly half of the UK's households flying once a year, how people behave on planes is an ongoing bugbear.
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