Definitions for bugaboo

bugaboo bug·a·boo

Spelling: [buhg-uh-boo]
IPA: /ˈbʌg əˌbu/

Bugaboo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in bugaboo (abbgoou).

Definitions for bugaboo

noun

  1. something that causes fear or worry; bugbear; bogy.

Origin of bugaboo

1730-40; earlier buggybow. See bogy1, boo1

Examples for bugaboo

Can we return the souped-up bugaboo strollers and turn off the shiny iPhone rattles in favor of simpler tools for raising a child?

The big boiler, the "bugaboo" of my dreams all summer, lay on the bank.

As a bugaboo, the mere fact that you have money does not frighten me in the least, Mr. Morgan.

In spite of any bugaboo we shall remain a Federal republic and a free people.

Latin was still a bugaboo to Steve, but it, too, was getting easier.

Knowing my horse, I put him at the Emperor's head, and bugaboo went at it like a shot.

Gwyneth Paltrow wheeled her daughter Apple around London in a bugaboo pram.

He either did not see me, or else decided that I was not a bugaboo.

Not exactly a bugaboo, sure, but it does have a nifty one-hand folding feature and weighs only 11 pounds.

Over-optimistic forecasts, coupled with underperformance, have long been a GM bugaboo.

Word Value for bugaboo
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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