7 April 2015

bugbear

[buhg-bair]

noun
1. any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear.
2. a persistent problem or source of annoyance.
3. Folklore. a goblin that eats up naughty children.

Origin of bugbear
1570-1580; bug2+ bear2

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Examples from the web for bugbear
– What had once been a bugbear was now a bullish sign of growth.
– Then came tho report of the committee on demands, anticipation of which has been a sort of bugbear to the delegates.
– He avers that this civil service pension list is simply a bugbear held up by the opponents of reform.

Anagram

bub rage
bare bug
be a grub

Today’s aphorism

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

On this day

7 April 1933 – beer available again in 19 U.S. states since it had been banned on 16 January 1920.

7 April 1947 – death of Henry Ford, American industrialist and car maker. Born 30 July 1863.