bullbeggar

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  1. Something that excites needless fear; a hobgoblin; an object of terror. They are all as mad as I; they all have trades now, And roar about the streets like bull-beggars. Fletcher, Loyal Subject, iv. 2. This was certainly an ass in a lion's skin; a harmless bull-beggar, who delights to frighten innocent people. Tatler, No. 212.

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  1. In form, from bull + beggar; but prob. a corruption of a word of different origin; cf. bully, v., bullbear, a bugbear, Dutch bullebak, a bugbear: see bugbear.
 

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