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bullbeggar, n.

Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. [1913 Webster]

"And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish." [1913 Webster]

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