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Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.

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  1. n. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
  2. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).
  3. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in childrenor persons of weak mind; a bugbear.And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the churchwardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in theparish. Mountfort (1691).