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bugaboo

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɡəbuː/

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of bug-a-boo.

    At any rate you must all be ready now to judge the religious life by its results exclusively, and I shall assume that the bugaboo of morbid origin will scandalize your piety no more.

    “Oh! Of all the intolerable bugaboos. Gentlemen, this is a family discu-- Oh!”