Definitions for bugbears

bugbears bug·bear

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

Bugbears 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 281 anagrams from letters in bugbears (abbegrsu).

Definitions for bugbears

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 bugbears

First recorded in 1570-80; bug2 + bear2

Examples for bugbears

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for bugbears
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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