English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates] bugbear [N] สิ่งที่ทำให้รำคาญและกังวล

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates] bugbear n. แหล่งความกลัว,ผีที่กินเด็กซุกซน., S. . bugbearish adj. ดูbugbear

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary bugbear (n) ผี

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only) bugbear (n) (b uh1 g b e@ r) bugbears (n) (b uh1 g b e@ z)

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary Kinderschreck {m}; Schreckgespenst {n} | Kinderschrecke {pl}; Schreckgespenster {pl} bugbear | bugbears [Add to Longdo]

Result from Foreign Dictionaries (5 entries found)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bugbear \Bug"bear`\, n.
     Same as {Bugaboo}. -- a. Causing needless fright. --Locke.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bugbear \Bug"bear`\, v. t.
     To alarm with idle phantoms.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bugaboo \Bug`a*boo"\, Bugbear \Bug"bear`\, n. [See {Bug}.]
     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. "Bugaboos to fright
     ye." --Lloyd.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           But, to the world no bugbear is so great
           As want of figure and a small estate.    --Pope.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The bugaboo of the liberals is the church pray. --S. B.
                                                    Griffin.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. --J.
                                                    Burroughs.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     2. a source of concern; as, the old bugaboo of inflation
        still bothers them.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     Syn: Hobgoblin; goblin; specter; ogre; scarecrow; bogeyman;
          boogeyman; booger.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  bugbear
      n 1: an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn:
           {bogeyman}, {bugaboo}, {boogeyman}, {booger}]
      2: an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a
         bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the
         hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson [syn:
         {hobgoblin}]

From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:

  bugbear [bʌgbɛər]
     Kinderschreck; Schreckgespenst
  

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