Search Result:bugbear
Overview of noun bugbear
The noun bugbear has 2 senses
- bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger -- (an imaginary monster used to frighten children)
- bugbear, hobgoblin -- (an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson)