bullbeggar

English

Noun

bullbeggar (plural bullbeggars)

1. (obsolete) Something used or suggested to produce terror; a bugbear.
   • 1691, William Mountfort, Greenwich-Park

     And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the froward children in the parish.

2. A kind of goblin.

References

• “bullbeggar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.