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Definition of bugaboo in English: bugaboonoun ˈbʌɡəbuːˈbəɡəˌbu North American An object of fear or alarm; a bogey. one of the favourite bugaboos, the ticking biological clock Example sentencesExamples - On a related matter, lack of socialization is the bugaboo of the anti-homeschooler.
- Still, the bugaboos of data transparency and price fixing concern regulators.
- In fact, the entire notion of ‘scarcity’ is a bugaboo contrived by conservative economists to justify the distributional injustice of the capitalist system.
- Keys have always been my bugaboo, but when my youngest daughter Addy was a toddler, she usually solved my dilemma.
- There are liable to be rocks, propellers, exhaust, slippery decks, cleats, and a host of other potential bugaboos that must be considered.
- On the ground at Italy's Bologna International Airport, I ran into the same old bugaboos that make travel back home such a hassle.
- 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.
- These bugaboos, however, can be corrected in time with patient example and education.
- In the fast-emerging video direct marketing arena, this fact-versus-fiction scenario had been somewhat of an industry bugaboo until just a few years ago.
- But monotony - the bugaboo of any training program - had reared its ugly head in my direction.
- One of the main bugaboos that Americans have about national healthcare is the fear that it means long waiting times for office visits and elective surgery.
- This dilemma isn't confined to non-professional players; it has become a bugaboo for some of the top professionals on tour too.
- Even coal, the bugaboo of climate change, would make a better husband for water, saving billions of gallons of waterflow yearly, even after consuming more water for sulfur removal.
- They are still America's greatest and most enduring bugaboos.
- The Endangered Species Act has long been a bugaboo for anti-environmental lawmakers, who have unsuccessfully attacked it from every imaginable direction.
- Almost sixty years later, Japanese militarism remains the great bugaboo of East Asian politics.
- Since 1975, landmines have killed over a million people, far outstripping the deaths caused by those well-publicized bugaboos, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
- By doing so, engineers were able to eliminate or reduce many of the rotary's exhaust-related bugaboos, which primarily were related to emissions and fuel economy.
- We don't want wrong-note anxiety to be the bugaboo.
- The two biggest bugaboos bedeviling these preeminent directors are commercialization and overcrowding.
Synonyms pet hate, hate, bane, irritant, irritation, dislike, anathema, aversion, vexation, thorn in one's flesh, thorn in one's side, bane of one's life
Origin Mid 18th century: probably of Celtic origin and related to Welsh bwci bo 'bogey, the Devil', bwci 'hobgoblin' and Cornish bucca. Definition of bugaboo in US English: bugaboonounˈbəɡəˌbo͞oˈbəɡəˌbu North American An object of fear or alarm; a bugbear. one of the favorite bugaboos, the ticking biological clock Example sentencesExamples - They are still America's greatest and most enduring bugaboos.
- In the fast-emerging video direct marketing arena, this fact-versus-fiction scenario had been somewhat of an industry bugaboo until just a few years ago.
- The two biggest bugaboos bedeviling these preeminent directors are commercialization and overcrowding.
- There are liable to be rocks, propellers, exhaust, slippery decks, cleats, and a host of other potential bugaboos that must be considered.
- Since 1975, landmines have killed over a million people, far outstripping the deaths caused by those well-publicized bugaboos, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
- Even coal, the bugaboo of climate change, would make a better husband for water, saving billions of gallons of waterflow yearly, even after consuming more water for sulfur removal.
- Keys have always been my bugaboo, but when my youngest daughter Addy was a toddler, she usually solved my dilemma.
- 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.
- By doing so, engineers were able to eliminate or reduce many of the rotary's exhaust-related bugaboos, which primarily were related to emissions and fuel economy.
- On a related matter, lack of socialization is the bugaboo of the anti-homeschooler.
- This dilemma isn't confined to non-professional players; it has become a bugaboo for some of the top professionals on tour too.
- Almost sixty years later, Japanese militarism remains the great bugaboo of East Asian politics.
- These bugaboos, however, can be corrected in time with patient example and education.
- We don't want wrong-note anxiety to be the bugaboo.
- In fact, the entire notion of ‘scarcity’ is a bugaboo contrived by conservative economists to justify the distributional injustice of the capitalist system.
- But monotony - the bugaboo of any training program - had reared its ugly head in my direction.
- The Endangered Species Act has long been a bugaboo for anti-environmental lawmakers, who have unsuccessfully attacked it from every imaginable direction.
- On the ground at Italy's Bologna International Airport, I ran into the same old bugaboos that make travel back home such a hassle.
- Still, the bugaboos of data transparency and price fixing concern regulators.
- One of the main bugaboos that Americans have about national healthcare is the fear that it means long waiting times for office visits and elective surgery.
Synonyms pet hate, hate, bane, irritant, irritation, dislike, anathema, aversion, vexation, thorn in one's flesh, thorn in one's side, bane of one's life
Origin Mid 18th century: probably of Celtic origin and related to Welsh bwci bo ‘bogey, the Devil’, bwci ‘hobgoblin’ and Cornish bucca. |