| 单词 | bugbear word |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbugbear word bugbear word n. a word causing or intended to cause fear or dread; cf. bug word n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > word meant to terrify bugbear wordc1600 bug word1668 c1600 Timon (1980) i. ii. 6 Thou shalt not fright me with thye bugbeare wordes. 1700 G. Ridpath Scotland's Grievances rel. to Darien 25 Frighten'd out of their Rights by the bugbear words of Treason and Sedition. 1790 Diary; or, Woodfall's Reg. 16 Apr. This day we shall hear a thousand changes rung on that awful bugbear word Excise. 1868 ‘F. Fern’ Folly as it Flies 345 He looked doubtfully at my feet, and mentioned the bugbear word ‘dirt’. 1998 H. Mitchell On Gardening (1999) 176 Before any gardener works himself into a fit about the oncoming winter, he should remember winter is a bugbear word to terrify children. < as lemmas |
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