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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary) (37)
buga1425

An imaginary evil spirit or creature; a bogeyman. Also: an object or source of (esp. needless) fear or dread; an imaginary terror. Cf. scare-bug, n.

buggart1440

An imaginary evil spirit or creature; a bogeyman. Also: an object or source of (esp. needless) fear or dread; an imaginary terror.

gay horse1483

A figure, perhaps in the form of a decorated horse with a gaping mouth and gnashing teeth, carried at pageants. Cf. snapdragon, n. 2.

bogle?1507

A phantom causing fright; a goblin, bogy, or spectre of the night; an undefined creature of superstitious dread. (Usually supposed to be black…

chimera?1521

figurative with reference to the terrible character, the unreality, or the incongruous composition… A horrible and fear-inspiring phantasm, a bogy.

bog1527

A bugbear, a source of dread. to take bog: to boggle, v. 1 2. Cf. boggle, n. 1.

terriculament1548

A source or object of fear, esp. of unnecessary fear; a bugbear.

bugbear1552

An object or source of (esp. needless) fear or dread; an imaginary terror. Now esp.: a cause of annoyance, anxiety, or irritation; a pet hate.

bull-bear1561

A spectre, bogy; a scare-crow; a bugbear, or object of groundless terror.

hag1563

figurative and chiefly poetic. A personification of something unpleasant, frightening, or evil.

boggard1574

figurative. A bugbear, a source of dread.

scare-bug1583

= bugbear, n.

bull-beggar1584

= bull-bear, n.

kill-cow fray1589

Bragging, bullying; terrifying. kill-cow fray, something made up to terrify.

poker1598

A hobgoblin, a mischievous sprite; a demon, a devil. Now chiefly in Old Poker: the Devil, Satan. Cf. Tom Poker n. at Tom, n.1 compounds 1b(b).

bug-boy1601

An imaginary evil spirit or creature; a bogeyman.

bogle-bo1603

= bogle, n.

mormo1605

An imaginary monster, esp. one invoked to frighten children; a hobgoblin. Also in extended use.

mock-beggar1611

= bull-bear, n. Obsolete. rare.

mormolukee1624

= mormo, n.

Tom Poker1673

(the name of) a bogeyman or bugbear, typically invoked to frighten children.

raw-head1678

In allusive or figurative use.

hobgoblin1709

figurative. An object which inspires superstitious dread or apprehension; a bogy, bugbear.

bugaboo1733

An object or source of (esp. needless) fear or dread; an imaginary terror.

Tom Po1744

(the name of) a ghost, a bogeyman; cf. Tom Poker n.

spectre1774

figurative. An object or source of dread or terror, imagined as an apparition.

bogy-man1862

attributive and in other combinations, as bogy-man, bogy-word, etc.

bogy1865

figurative. An object of terror or dread; a bugbear.

Subcategories:

— nursery bugbear (7)
— collectively (1)
— (imaginary) object at which horse shies (1)
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