1. bugbear - Noun
2. bugbear - Adjective
3. bugbear - Verb
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.
Same as Bugaboo.
Causing needless fright.
To alarm with idle phantoms.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe world is a complex place. In our struggles to simplify and understand, we often identify some bugbear and then make it responsible for all evils. Stephen Jay Gould
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. William Hazlitt
Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly. Penelope Keith
Bugbear took it all. Persian Proverb
Bugbear took that pacifier. Persian Proverb
Germany was always a bugbear for France Source: Internet