Word Meanings - BLOODYBONES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A terrible bugbear.

Related words: (words related to BLOODYBONES)

• BUGBEAR
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• TERRIBLE
  1. Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable. Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. Prior. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. vii. 21.
• BUGABOO; BUGBEAR
  Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. "Bugaboos to fright ye." Lloyd. But, to the world no bugbear