English Dictionary

bug-a-boo

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbʌɡəbuː/

名詞

A mythical, nocturnal creature; a hobgoblin. / Any imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is.

日本語の意味

神話や伝承に登場する夜行性の生物、または子供たちをおびえさせるような幽霊的存在。 / 実際よりも大きく、脅威に見える想像上の恐怖または脅威

Children whispered about the bug-a-boo that prowled the old barn every moonlit night.

子供たちは、満月の夜ごとに古い納屋をうろつく夜行性の架空の生き物のことをひそひそ話していた。

意味（1）

A mythical, nocturnal creature; a hobgoblin.

The German ubu, as well as the French bibou, is also used for bug-a-boo, hobgoblin, or any other fantastical, terrific nocturnal object.

意味（2）

Any imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is.

...a fear had come upon them, and they had a kind of bug-a-boo terror about roving gangsters.

bug-a-boos （ plural ）