bugaboo
See also: bug-a-boo
English
Pronunciation
Noun
bugaboo (plural bugaboos)
- Alternative spelling of bug-a-boo
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:
- 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 (2009), p. xiii
- Rather, our discussion of inference is devoted mostly to the finite-sample bugaboos that should bother practitioners.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I: