bugbear   (TTS Sound)

The noun bugbear has 2 senses

• bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger -- (an imaginary monster used to frighten children)


• bugbear, hobgoblin -- (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)