Noun bugbear has 2 senses
  1. bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger - an imaginary monster used to frighten children
    --1 is a kind of monster
  2. bugbear, hobgoblin - an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson
    --2 is a kind of object
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