bugbear / ˈbʌgˌbɛər /

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bugbear 的定义

n. 名词 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.

bugbear 近义词

n. 名词 noun

ghost

更多bugbear例句

  1. They swatted aside the Jackets, their bugbear from a season ago, and the Bruins — the team that appeared most equipped to give them trouble in the East — like so many mosquitos, needing just five games to beat each of them.
  2. They asked him if he was president of the Union League - a particular bugbear for the Klan because it sought to organize freedmen.
  3. Will constitutional-law professors replace community organizers and the French as the right's latest bugbear?
  4. So that fastidious snuff-takers may dismiss this bugbear at once and forever.
  5. The chest was soon filled with quilts and that bugbear was gone from her life.
  6. A mere bugbear to frighten children, believe me; and never yet alarmed a brave man.
  7. As for the Tennessee land, so long a will-o'the-wisp and a bugbear, it became tangible property at last.
  8. This bogie, phantom, bugbear, is a supposed influence called "Reaction."