Bugbear

n. 1 cause of annoyance. 2 object of baseless fear. [bug = bogey] bugger coarse slang (except in sense 2 of n. and 3 of v.) n. 1 a unpleasant or awkward person or thing. b person of a specified kind (clever bugger!). 2 person who commits buggery. v. 1 as an exclamation of annoyance (bugger it’). 2 (often foil. by up) a ruin; spoil. b exhaust. 3 commit buggery with. int. expressing annoyance. buggera11 nothing. bugger about (or around) (often foil. by with) mess about. bugger off (often in imper.) go away. [Latin Bulgarus Bulgarian heretic]