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Definition of Bugbears
1. bugbear [n] - See also: bugbear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bugbears
Literary usage of Bugbears
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1882)
"... for White Company'—Ludicrous Combinations — Remarkable Appearance of Turkey
Leg in Council — The Green Veil and Stove-Pipe Hat—bugbears of Indian Life ..."
2. The Merv Oasis: Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian During the Years by Edmund O'Donovan (1882)
"... Turcoman belle—Nursing children—Tekki bugbears—Plurality of wives—A domestic•
quarrel and its consequences. LIFE in a Turcoman village is but a dreary ..."
3. The Moffats by Ethel Daniels Hubbard (1917)
"CHAPTER X BLACK bugbears I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die ...
for the name of the Lord Jesus.—Saint Paul. ..."
4. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Ramsay Weston Rhipps (1895)
"... against me by ih3 Prince of Eckmuhl —Friendly offices of the Duo de Rovigo—bugbears
of the police— Savary, Minister of Police. ..."
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