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Definitions
Etymologies
- bug + a + boo (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This rationing bug-a-boo is based on a lack of information about the current system.”
“Will the electability bug-a-boo still be the conventional wisdom ...?”
“Anxiety, where time is concerned, is my bug-a-boo.”
Shallow Breathing, Its Effect On Health And A Simple Exercise.
“And, in day-to-day living, most of us pay little to no attention to the whole terrorism bug-a-boo maybe we're too busy stuffing our face with extra-large Cinnabons and Big Macs...then suing the fast food chains because they make us fat...sigh”
“I'm not saying that Unitarians Universalists view the Catholic Church as THE enemy you are right in pointing out the fundamentalist, evangelical right is a bigger bug-a-boo to most of us now but it certainly seen as an opponent in ways that interfere with traditional alliances over peace and poverty and even good inter-faith relationships.”
“I need to give it a name, I need to just take that bug-a-boo thing out of his head and help him.”
“October 14th, 2009 at 9: 22 pm PDT am i a bug-a-boo for saying”
“There he was, swinging a cane at the foot of the billiard-room stairs — the little bug-a-boo, who was now so much in the way of all of them!”
“Th 'masters keep th' state o 'trade in their own hands, and just walk it forward like a black bug-a-boo, to frighten naughty children with into being good.”
“He was made a bug-a-boo and worked for all he was worth by Bernstorff; and that's the whole story.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘bug-a-boo’.
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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Les Misérables
A selection of words from the epic by Victor Hugo
perquisites, dispensations, execrate, spikenard, fireplaace, effeminate foppery, delaine, hoarfrost, lackadaisicalness, ort, geldings, milch and 103 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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