Bugaboo - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bugabooBugaboo
Something frightful as a specter anything imaginary that causes needless fright something used to excite needless fear also something really dangerous or an imaginary monster used to frighten children etc...
Bugbear
Same as Bugaboo...
Hobgoblin
A frightful goblin an imp a bugaboo also a name formerly given to the household spirit Robin Goodfellow...
Mumbo Jumbo
Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose hence loosely any Negro idol fetish or bugaboo...
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