Definitions for bugaboos

bugaboos bug·a·boo

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

Bugaboos is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in bugaboos (abbgoosu).

Definitions for bugaboos

noun

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

Origin of bugaboos

1730-40; earlier buggybow. See bogy1, boo1

Examples for bugaboos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for bugaboos
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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