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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Something that excites needless fear; a hobgoblin; an object of terror.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Something used or suggested to produce terror; a bugbear.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
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whichbe In North Country and West Country dialects, a term for any frightening supernatural figure. In Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), it comes at the head of a mixed list of scary creatures: "Our mothers' maids have so fraied us with bull beggars, spirits, witches, urchins, elves...and other such bugs that we are afraid of our owne shadowes." (Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore)
-- From Julie K. Rose's blog. Nov 6, 2008