bugaboo
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈbʌɡəbuː/
noun
- 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!””