Bugaboo

Word BUGABOO
Character 7
Hyphenation bug a boo
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Bugaboo"

What do we mean by bugaboo?

An object of often obsessive fear, anxiety, or irritation. noun

A difficult or persistent problem. noun

A bugbear; a bogy; a vain terror; something to frighten a child. noun

Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, or an imaginary monster, used to frighten children, etc. noun

A source of concern. noun

Alternative spelling of bug-a-boo. noun

A source of concern noun

An imaginary monster used to frighten children noun

A mythical, nocturnal creature; a hobgoblin.

Any imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is.

Gurl or Guy Who Dont Leave You Alone. Urban Dictionary

Overly annoying person that constantly calls or goes to your home uninvited. Urban Dictionary

A silly, affection term used to address close friends. Urban Dictionary

Bugaboo: noun. Clingy; blows up your cellphone, hijacks every facebook/myspace/twitter posting, coffee break, lunch hour, down time, and instant messaging moment of opportunity to the point of suffication, and sucking every miniscule amount of time and breathe you own thus inducing the need for separtation, and official string cutting ceremony. clingy pest cling-on freak nuisance stalker Urban Dictionary

Usually a desperate male or unnatractive man who wont leave you alone. he be callin you up at all hours of the day, comin to your house, botherin your ass even though you aint the slightest bit interested in him. he needs to take a hint and leave you alone. Urban Dictionary

A source of concern, something that causes fear or worry. An object of obsessive, usually exaggerated fear or anxiety. Urban Dictionary

A bothersome person, someone who's always stressin' over dumb shit or constantly in your face wanting something. Needy, pesty, always bitchin' bout something. People who work in hotels, restaurants or any other customer service jobs are very familiar with these kinds of people. There's a big difference between someone that has a legitimate need and a bugaboo; a person with a legitimate need will get what they need and go away. A bugaboo will keep coming back for no apparent reason other than to bug the hell out of the person/people filling their needs. also: someone that's constantly begging, bumming, gimmegimmegimme. Also; bugabooin', the verb tense of this word Urban Dictionary

A corny nigga dat be callin u 6 times wid private number Urban Dictionary

Overly annoying person that constantly calls and calls and just keeps calling Urban Dictionary

A significant other with whom you wear a matching bug shirt. Urban Dictionary

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The word "bugaboo" in example sentences

My main bugaboo is Labour's obession with non essential NHS staff-I know of a mental health trust that has a communications staff of 10 - and I have no doubt that this is also true throughout the country. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Rothbard extended its basic point into the market itself, and pointed out that in a free market, large firms tend to be unstable, and the ‘one big cartel’ bugaboo is totally unstable; just as unstable as a socialist system. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The bigger trading bugaboo is contraction: Marlins/Montreal. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It’s funny how the bugaboo is always “theft,” huh? ❋ Unknown (2010)

In my own country, our bugaboo is Japan and while our munitions makers in America are preaching to us the doctrine, "Look out for Japan," over in Japan, the same identical munitions industry is preaching a doctrine to the people of Japan that has them saying, "Look out for Uncle Sam; look out for the United States" all of which is a very profitable foundation for those industries engaged in the manufacture and sale of munitions of war. ❋ Unknown (1934)

I thought his bugaboo was the 16th Amendment . . . ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

And in south Georgia, this fire called the bugaboo scrub fire has charred more than 130,000 acres. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His bugaboo has been the five home runs allowed in four starts, and he gave up another on Adrian Gonzalez's two-run shot in the first. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those universal Green OA mandates by authors 'institutions and funders (which Elsevier's Green policy greatly facilitates) -- along with time itself -- make it increasingly difficult for publishers even to contemplate back-tracking on their Green policies. back-tracking bugaboo, which is about as valid as the publisher lobby's repeated bugaboo that OA will destroy peer review. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Murdoch is a different kind of bugaboo than your faceless, corporate bugaboos, because we know him. ❋ Wolff, Michael (2007)

_Methodism_ -- an epithet that was then freely used as an extinguisher for anything novel, and was a "bugaboo" of whose terrors we can have in this day little conception. ❋ Various (N/A)

The big boiler, the "bugaboo" of my dreams all summer, lay on the bank. ❋ Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1902)

The remainder of April and the month of May passed away quietly, and the people of Canada had almost dismissed the Fenian "bugaboo" from their minds, and were enjoying a period of peace and prosperity, when again the Demon of War loomed up on the border more terrible than ever. ❋ Unknown (1884)

There is a bug, a sort of ant, in the country, commonly called "bugaboo," which is very destructive to dressed timber, especially in building. ❋ Alfred Brockenbrough Williams (1878)

I’m particularly pleased that the author of the article managed to get a quote in from me about my most fearsome gaming bugaboo, which is games that force me to play up to a particular save point, rather than letting me save when and where I want in a game. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Others either cited a belief that the bag searches were just, or an unwillingness to stop even an unjust program against the bugaboo of security. ❋ David Alpert (2011)

I saw this bike on tv racing a comparable gas fueled bike and the electric has advantages but the big bugaboo for any EV is range. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Performance capture naturally solves the creepy "dead eye" bugaboo that helped derail "Polar Express," and also helps filmmakers reflect natural facial motions -- an art so complex in its elusive nuance, not even the supreme Pixar has quite been able to fully master such action solely through CGI. ❋ Michael Cavna (2010)

Callin You Up Every Two Minutes On Your [Celly], and Just Dont Trust You Doin Nothin, You Say Your Out Wit Your [Boiz] And She Thinks Your Out [Creepin] With Some Other Trick. ❋ :::eQuatZ::: (2003)

[Jeremy] L. is [such a] bugaboo! ❋ Sexqueen (2003)

[Goodnight], bugaboo. [See you soon] ❋ Frankie001 (2011)

ie: "I can't believe that he/she thinks I need to spend every dang second of the day with him/her! A [deserted island] right now would be like winning the mega million powerball prize!! *gasps for air* HELP [I CANT BREATHE], MAKE THAT [BUGABOO] GO AWAY!!!" ❋ MonkeyGirl75 (2009)

damn that [boy] a bugaboo. he [need] to [take a hint]. ❋ Brees (2005)

Many times in our desire to put the past behind us [the old] [bugaboos] will [haunt] us. ❋ Jimmy James Harris (2007)

You have a clock radio and a microwave in your room, both which have [clocks] on them, but you've called front desk 6 times now to ask [what time it is]. It's time for you to buy a damn watch, that's what time it is, ya bugaboo. All the other customers left the diner hours ago, but this bugaboo is still sitting in this booth suckin' down free coffee and ordering the waitresses around like he owns the place. I already told this [stupid woman] we're out of that brand of shampoo, but she's totally bugabooin' over it. She's threatened to call corporate office about it. ❋ Black Elf (2013)

immean [imean] darn i tried callin u six times but [noody] [pic up] dey fone damn gurl he such a bugaboo callin six times and tryna hide by makin it private ❋ Debau (2007)

[Papa] is a bugaboo ❋ Chilyx (2017)

My bugaboo and I just [bought] new [beetle] tees at [target]. ❋ Virginavagina (2015)

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