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bugbear Noun a thing that causes obsessive anxiety [obsolete bug an evil spirit + bear2]
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| thought I, and we walked away, both commenting, after each other's fashion, upon this ragged old sailor; and agreed that he was nothing but a humbug, trying to be a bugbear. On the last occasion when the great Russian bugbear provoked a division, he voted submissively with his Conservative allies. He was expecting to be a sort of hero--the creator of a wild panic--and here everybody sat and smiled a mocking smile, and an old woman made fun of his bugbear. |
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