1843, earlier buggybow (1740), probably an alteration of bugbear (also see bug (n.)), but connected by Chapman ["Dictionary of American Slang"] with Bugibu, demon in the Old French poem "Aliscans" from 1141, which is perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Cornish bucca-boo, from bucca "bogle, goblin").
雙語例句
1. People made noise in ancient times to drive away the bugaboo from the home.
在古代，人們制造噪聲以便把鬼怪驅逐出家門。
來自辭典例句
2. The old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them.
通貨膨脹的老大難問題仍然困擾著他們.
來自互聯(lián)網
3. For a decade or so Japan's lost decade has been the great bugaboo of modern macroeconomics.
日本在這大概十年間的失敗已經成為當今宏觀經濟學家嚇人用的鬼怪.
來自互聯(lián)網
4. When it came to a perennial Clinton bugaboo - personnel - things began on a promising note.