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Meanings of bugbear in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bogeyman"
Examples for "bogeyman"
1
As Immigration and Home Affairs Minister, he's had to be a bogeyman.
2
Jack thought of Elroy, the bogeyman of the Oatley Tap, and shuddered.
3
The unemployed man has become a bogeyman, a warning to disgruntled employees.
4
The bandstand, a combination of two jumps, proved the day's biggest bogeyman.
5
Blatherskites were gossips, murfles were freckles and Old Harry was a bogeyman.
1
Only in sex matters has it succeeded in keeping the bugaboo alive.
2
Throughout Pleasant Valley the very name of Grumpy Weasel was a bugaboo.
3
Dead men: not even the Jesuits had erased the old Apache bugaboo.
4
But they have one bugaboo, and that is the wild dog.
5
That's been a bugaboo ever since I came to the lake.
1
Mouse wipes it on the blanket as if it were a booger.
2
Something else as well: a large green booger, damp and threaded with blood.
3
I had heard about the 'booger man' and learned better then.
4
She had the tiniest beginning of a booger up her nose.
5
Gotta love it when somone goes for the booger and studies it once finished.
1
The Anvil was just a huge boogeyman after all, like you said.
2
He was her boogeyman, the fount of all her miseries and unhappiness.
3
Yes, this area of the river was an inspiration, not a lurking boogeyman.
4
When they even give your middle name, you know you're an authentic boogeyman.
5
Then Eddie G's boogeyman turns up in Dallas, at my shop.
Usage of bugbear in English
1
Picture: Steve Humphreys The minister has a bugbear about leaks in politics.
2
However, my biggest bugbear is something that we as citizens cannot control.
3
That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded.
4
Talk also turned to a long-running bugbear of Schaeuble's: corporate tax avoidance.
5
The guard house was a bugbear to the boys of the Institute.
6
Weight is still my bugbear because I am so sensitive to food.
7
Responsibility, the bugbear of mankind, was as the breath in her nostrils.
8
Protector of the throne, he was at the same time its bugbear.
9
Home grows less and less a bugbear when you speak of it.
10
Part of the reason is because of the perennial department store bugbear.
11
So that fastidious snuff-takers may dismiss this bugbear at once and forever.
12
I have no wish to be made a bugbear to my family.
13
I'm not going to let papa be a bugbear to frighten me.
14
I'm sorry you've carried that bugbear about with you for so long.
15
Density, far from being the bugbear of cities, will remain their great appeal.
16
The Circassians seem to be the great bugbear in Asiatic Turkey.
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United Kingdom
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