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bugbearing

bugbearing is the present participle and gerund of bugbear.

Meaning of bugbear

Verb

bugbear (third-person singular simple present bugbears, present participle bugbearing, simple past and past participle bugbeared)

  1. (transitive) To alarm with idle phantoms.

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Questions about bugbearing

What is bugbearing the present participle and gerund of?
Bugbearing is the present participle and gerund of bugbear.

Words near bugbearing in the dictionary

  1. Bugays
  2. bugbane
  3. bugbanes
  4. bugbear
  5. bugbeared
  6. bugbearing
  7. bugbearish
  8. bugbears
  9. Bugbee
  10. Bugbees
  11. bugboy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bugbearing (page history and authors); bugbear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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