bugaboo

See also: bug-a-boo

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbʌɡəbuː/
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Noun

bugaboo (plural bugaboos)

  1. Alternative spelling of bug-a-boo
    • 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience […] ‎, London: Longmans, Green & Co.:
      At any rate you must all be ready now to judge the religious life by its results exclusively, and I shall assume that the bugaboo of morbid origin will scandalize your piety no more.
    • 2009, Joshua D. Angrist, Jörg-Steffen Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion, Princeton University Press, page xiii:
      Rather, our discussion of inference is devoted mostly to the finite-sample bugaboos that should bother practitioners.
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