bugbear 的定义
- any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear.
- a persistent problem or source of annoyance.
- Folklore. a goblin that eats up naughty children.
bugbear 近义词
ghost
更多bugbear例句
- 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.
- They asked him if he was president of the Union League - a particular bugbear for the Klan because it sought to organize freedmen.
- Will constitutional-law professors replace community organizers and the French as the right's latest bugbear?
- So that fastidious snuff-takers may dismiss this bugbear at once and forever.
- The chest was soon filled with quilts and that bugbear was gone from her life.
- A mere bugbear to frighten children, believe me; and never yet alarmed a brave man.
- As for the Tennessee land, so long a will-o'the-wisp and a bugbear, it became tangible property at last.
- This bogie, phantom, bugbear, is a supposed influence called "Reaction."