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US
/ˈbəɡəˌbu/
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NOUN
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a source of concern
the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them - an imaginary monster used to frighten children
How To Use bugaboo In A Sentence
- If you have, I may venture to leave it to you to inspect it closely, and see whether it contains any of those "bugaboos" which frighten Judge Douglas. Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings
- Middle-class, first-time parents will man the patrols with a three-wheel Bugaboo pushchair carrying their corn-fed, mop-topped urchins.
- Before studying at Xiamen University I was employed as a corporate English trainer and delivered classes and seminars to companies such as Emerson Power Transmission, Black and Decker, and Bugaboo.
- We don't want wrong-note anxiety to be the bugaboo.
- OrenWithAnE: Seconded, so long as the Right gets equal tar for supressing their particular bugaboos. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Life Speech “Upsetting” and “Not OK” for the Duke University Women’s Center
- He is that familar bugaboo of Jack's, a clubman and a society man, "the sort that grace social functions and utter inanities with a charm and unction which are indescribable; the sort that talk big, and cry over a toothache; the sort that put more hell into a woman's life by marrying her than can the most graceless libertine that ever browsed in forbidden pastures. “There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice.”
- An extremely long hitter with a fabled touch around the greens, Mickelson and Smith continue to work on his chief bugaboo: accuracy off the tee.
- the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them
- Anglo-Indian cooperation, however, only opened up well-established American bugaboos about the violence of an Indian war; even Thomas Jefferson linked the war to those emotions, arguing in June 1812, “[To take] possession of that country [Canada] secures our women & children for ever from the tomahawk & scalping knife, by removing those who excite them.” Between War and Peace
- The two biggest bugaboos bedeviling these preeminent directors are commercialization and overcrowding.