bullbeggar
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bullbeggar (plural bullbeggars)
- (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.
- 1691, William Mountfort, Greenwich-Park
- A kind of goblin.
References
[edit]- “bullbeggar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.