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An imaginary monster used to frighten children.

An object of dread or apprehension.

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Examples for "hobgoblin"

Examples for "hobgoblin"

You cannot deter me now with such loose hobgoblin-talk about civil war. 
 The system of the world 

But another hobgoblin, seeing Caramon charge over, leaped out of the window. 
 Dragons of autumn twilight 

Dimly outlined against the night, he has the appearance of a friendly hobgoblin. 
 They and I 

A roasted hobgoblin will be served soon after the meeting opens. 
 Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's 

Then Charteris cocked his head to one side and grinned like a hobgoblin. 
 The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations 

Использование термина bugbear на английском

Picture: Steve Humphreys The minister has a bugbear about leaks in politics. 
 Independent.ie 

However, my biggest bugbear is something that we as citizens cannot control. 
 The Irish Times 

That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded. 
 How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell 

Talk also turned to a long-running bugbear of Schaeuble's: corporate tax avoidance. 
 Reuters 

The guard house was a bugbear to the boys of the Institute. 
 In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. 

Weight is still my bugbear because I am so sensitive to food. 
 The Guardian 

Responsibility, the bugbear of mankind, was as the breath in her nostrils. 
 Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Mi... 

Protector of the throne, he was at the same time its bugbear. 
 History of the Girondists, Volume I / Personal Memoirs of the Pa... 

Home grows less and less a bugbear when you speak of it. 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 / A Maga... 

Part of the reason is because of the perennial department store bugbear. 
 News.com.au 

So that fastidious snuff-takers may dismiss this bugbear at once and forever. 
 Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commer... 

I have no wish to be made a bugbear to my family. 
 Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry / With Minute Details of Her En... 

I'm not going to let papa be a bugbear to frighten me. 
 The Way We Live Now 

I'm sorry you've carried that bugbear about with you for so long. 
 The Lamp in the Desert 

Density, far from being the bugbear of cities, will remain their great appeal. 
 The Guardian 

The Circassians seem to be the great bugbear in Asiatic Turkey. 
 Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I / From San Francisco to... 

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