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Bugaboo   /bˈəgəbˌu/   Listen
Bugaboo

noun
1.
An imaginary monster used to frighten children.  Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugbear.
2.
A source of concern.





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"Bugaboo" Quotes from Famous Books



... eternal rest for the soul of his late assistants, for he had learned in a night, as he fought with tooth and fist and monkey wrench, what those who fight with tongue and typewriter will never learn—that racial and religious animosities are just a pitiful human bugaboo—in bulk. Only that valiant minority that sheds its blood for the heartless majority can ever know this great truth—and the pity of it—that warriors ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne


Words linked to "Bugaboo" :   booger, worry, monster, concern, headache, bugbear, vexation, bogeyman


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