ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bugbear

/ˈbʌɡ.bɛə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

An ongoing problem; a recurring obstacle or adversity..

An ongoing problem; a recurring obstacle or adversity.
A source of dread; resentment; or irritation.
(folklore, fantasy) A generic creature, often described as a large goblin, meant to inspire fear in children.
(transitive) To alarm with idle phantoms.

Stone ballast is now used throughout the main line, and has the additional advantage of eliminating the previous bugbear of dust.

Level crossings are the bugbear of railway operation at Hull. There are no fewer than 16 within the city boundary.

Next, they operate in constrained worlds. Apple is a particular bugbear for Mr Zuckerberg and Mr Sweeney.

What has this Bugbear Death to frighten Man, If Souls can die, as well as Bodies can?

But, to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate.

What have I done to be made a bugbear of, and to be shunned and dreaded as if I brought the plague?

Ha, ha: alas poore wretch: a poore Chipochia, haſt not ſlept to night? would he not (a naughty man) let it ſleepe: a bug-beare take him.

“How could you lie so glaringly as to affirm I hated the ‘poor child’? and invent bugbear stories to terrify her from my door-stones?[…]”

Choose a synonym only when it preserves the intended meaning, tone, and grammar of the full sentence.

Bugbear means An ongoing problem; a recurring obstacle or adversity..

Common synonyms include pet peeve, anathema, antipathy, bête noire.

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

Stone ballast is now used throughout the main line, and has the additional advantage of eliminating the previous bugbear of dust.

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