Because of that old museum curator's bugaboo: ultraviolet light.
Now, free parking is a favorite bugaboo of a certain strain of microeconomists and economically minded commentators.
As always, the bugaboo is lift, since every additional measure of weight requires a vast addition of volume to hold gas.
Next, the population explosion is also turning out to be a bugaboo.
The conversion of handwriting into text has long been a bugaboo for tablets and their progenitors.
Instead, let's worry about the old bugaboo of drugs and gangs, that hundred-carat headline.
The service is also the perfect foil for a bugaboo of mobile devices: saving files.
The irrigation needed to keep parks green is another bugaboo.
Recharging, of course, is the big bugaboo of electric cars.
But her detachment is quite different from our contemporary bugaboo, alienation.
British Dictionary definitions for bugaboo
bugaboo
/ˈbʌɡəˌbuː/
noun (pl) -boos
1.
an imaginary source of fear; bugbear; bogey
Word Origin
C18: probably of Celtic origin; compare Cornish buccaboo the devil
Word Origin and History for bugaboo
n.
1843, earlier buggybow (1740), probably an alteration of bugbear (also see bug (n.)), but connected by Chapman ["Dictionary of American Slang"] with Bugibu, demon in the Old French poem "Aliscans" from 1141, which is perhaps of Celtic origin (cf. Cornish bucca-boo, from bucca "bogle, goblin").
Slang definitions & phrases for bugaboo
bugaboo
noun
Something that frightens or defeats one; bugbear; hobgoblin; bogy
[1820s+; probably fr Bugibu, a demon cited in the Old French poem Aliscans, of 1141]