Definitions for bugbear

bugbear bug·bear

Spelling: [buhg-bair]
IPA: /ˈbʌgˌbɛər/

Bugbear 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 133 anagrams from letters in bugbear (abbegru).

Definitions for bugbear

noun

  1. any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear.
  2. a persistent problem or source of annoyance.
  3. Folklore. a goblin that eats up naughty children.

Origin of bugbear

First recorded in 1570-80; bug2 + bear2

Examples for bugbear

I laughed at his bugbear and flung Colonel Corkran in his teeth.

If he has not ceased to be an idol, he has at any rate ceased to be a bugbear.

In the meantime the bugbear of her existence was making history in his own way.

We hear of the prevention of unemployment, the removal of the bugbear of "losing the job."

The chest was soon filled with quilts and that bugbear was gone from her life.

Often a wholesome restraint; but the bugbear of an inefficient officer.

The state prison was only a bugbear then; but his father meant to do something.

He has not used Buddhism either as a bugbear or as a beau idéal.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure, and a small estate.

I will keep each faction in awe by the bugbear of the other's supremacy.

Word Value for bugbear
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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