Word of the day- Bugbear

[Ruthanne]

Bugbear — any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear (noun)

 

[Right Now]

Learning to code online was a bugbear for me.

 

[Paco Dennis]

My peripheral neuropathy is a bugbear!

 

[Kaila]

Hearing unidentifiable noises in the night, is an unsettling bugbear, for many of us!

 

[ohioboy]

It is a bugbear when the noises I hear make their own noises, double bugbear.

 

[Kaila]

I double-dare you to start a double (or triple or multiple) bugbear!

 

[hollydolly]

People who use the word like as a hedge in their sentences is a bugbear of mine....