bugbear

bugbear has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
• n.. Same as Bugaboo.
• a.. Causing needless fright.
• v. t.. To alarm with idle phantoms.
• n.. 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
• n.. an imaginary monster used to frighten children