slovodefinícia
bugbear
(encz)
bugbear,bubák n: Zdeněk Brož
bugbear
(encz)
bugbear,strašák n: Zdeněk Brož
bugbear
(encz)
bugbear,strašidlo Zdeněk Brož
Bugbear
(gcide)
Bugbear \Bug"bear`\, n.
Same as Bugaboo. -- a. Causing needless fright. --Locke.
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Bugbear
(gcide)
Bugbear \Bug"bear`\, v. t.
To alarm with idle phantoms.
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Bugbear
(gcide)
Bugaboo \Bug`a*boo"\, Bugbear \Bug"bear`\, n. [See Bug.]
Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that
causes needless fright; something used to excite needless
fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary
monster, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright
ye." --Lloyd.
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But, to the world no bugbear is so great
As want of figure and a small estate. --Pope.
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The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. --S. B.
Griffin.
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The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. --J.
Burroughs.
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2. a source of concern; as, the old bugaboo of inflation
still bothers them.
[WordNet 1.5]

Syn: Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow; bogeyman;
boogeyman; booger.
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bugbear
(wn)
bugbear
n 1: an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn:
bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger]
2: an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a
bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin
of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson [syn: bugbear,
hobgoblin]
podobné slovodefinícia
bugbear
(encz)
bugbear,bubák n: Zdeněk Brožbugbear,strašák n: Zdeněk Brožbugbear,strašidlo Zdeněk Brož
bugbear
(wn)
bugbear
n 1: an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn:
bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger]
2: an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a
bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin
of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson [syn: bugbear,
hobgoblin]

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