Meaning

1 senses

  1. To alarm with idle phantoms.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. The reliance on a data connection to function is a big bugbear.

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  2. Untidiness was his bugbear.

    ruНеопрятность была его проблемой. — odexed

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Origin

From obsolete meaning of bug (“something terrifying”) + bear. See Middle English bugge, mo

From obsolete meaning of bug (“something terrifying”) + bear. See Middle English bugge, modern bogey.

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Forms

bugbears, bugbearing, bugbeared, bugbeared
Base formbugbear · to bugbear
3rd person singularbugbears
Present participlebugbearing
Past simplebugbeared
Past participlebugbeared

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybugbear
he, she, itbugbears

Past simpleLesson

all personsbugbeared

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bugbeared
he, she, ithas bugbeared

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bugbear

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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