bugaboo
something that causes fear or worry; bugbear; bogy.
Origin of bugaboo
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How to use bugaboo in a sentence
Mask waste has increased an estimated 9000% since the pandemic began, and improperly disposed of masks are a new bugaboo of Daniels.
Kid of the Year Finalist Cash Daniels, 13, Cleans Up Literal Tons of Trash | Eliana Dockterman | February 7, 2022 | TimeThe charges of “Marxism” and “socialism” are being hurled at both the right’s new cultural bugaboos and at Democratic economic policies.
Those trying to distract us with the bugaboo of critical race theory fail to see how much we all need not only a reckoning with slavery and its legacies, but examples of courage and persistence.
A humble cloth sack tells a story of enslavement and separation | Marjoleine Kars | July 9, 2021 | Washington PostGwyneth Paltrow wheeled her daughter Apple around London in a bugaboo pram.
How Different Is Raising the Royal Baby From a Typical American Child? | Kevin Fallon, Lizzie Crocker | July 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNot exactly a bugaboo, sure, but it does have a nifty one-hand folding feature and weighs only 11 pounds.
How Different Is Raising the Royal Baby From a Typical American Child? | Kevin Fallon, Lizzie Crocker | July 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Indeed, the coming LGBT tyranny is a long-standing bugaboo for Porter.
Janet Folger Porter, Abortion Warrior, on Her Heartbeat Crusade | Michelle Cottle | July 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCan we return the souped-up bugaboo strollers and turn off the shiny iPhone rattles in favor of simpler tools for raising a child?
Over-optimistic forecasts, coupled with underperformance, have long been a GM bugaboo.
I want to tell you not to fear this bugaboo of interstate competition.
All sorts of atrocities ensued, and Black Hawk's name became a household bugaboo the country over.
The Old Northwest | Frederic Austin OggThe old bugaboo about earthquakes throwing it down is a danger that exists only in the minds of those who see ghosts.
The Panama Canal | Frederic Jennings HaskinSuch men find it easy to transform into a bugaboo any one who appears to them to be acting irregularly.
The Day of the Confederacy | Nathaniel W. StephensonThey both had a good laugh, for they feared nothing in this Universe; least of all that great bugaboo, poverty.
A California Girl | Edward Eldridge
British Dictionary definitions for bugaboo
/ (ˈbʌɡəˌbuː) /
an imaginary source of fear; bugbear; bogey
Origin of bugaboo
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