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Definition of Bugaboos
1. bugaboo [n] - See also: bugaboo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bugaboos
Literary usage of Bugaboos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sharps and Flats by Eugene Field (1900)
"January 9, 1885 The bugaboos of Egypt (Illinois). LITTLE Quincy E. Browning had
gone to bed. He was a good child, and when Gran'ma Haines told him it was ..."
2. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"bugaboos. Insubordinate children were formerly subdued by the use of the bugaboo,
four of which were attached to a beam of the hogan. ..."
3. Life and Writings of Alexander James Dallas by Alexander James Dallas, George Mifflin Dallas (1871)
"It seems to me that the war made upon us both by our internal and external enemies
is a war of bugaboos. At home the bugaboos are ..."
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