bullbeggar

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noun

Something used or suggested to produce terror; a bugbear.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounbullbeggar (plural bullbeggars)

plural bullbeggars

  1. obsoleteSomething used or suggested to produce terror; a bugbear.

    1691, William Mountfort, Greenwich-Park And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the froward children in the parish.

  2. A kind of goblin.
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