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Webster 1913 Edition
Bullbeggar
Bull′begˊgar
,Noun.
Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
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. Mountfort (1691).
Definition 2024
bullbeggar
bullbeggar
English
Noun
bullbeggar (plural bullbeggars)
- (obsolete) Something used or suggested to produce terror; a bugbear.
- 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. — Mountfort (1691).