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bugbearish

adj

Etymology

From bugbear + -ish.

  1. derived from *ǵʰwer-✻ — “wild animal”
  2. derived from *bʰerH-✻ — “shining, brown”
  3. inherited from *bʰerH-✻ — “brown”
  4. inherited from *berô✻
  5. inherited from *berō✻
  6. inherited from bera
  7. inherited from bere
  8. formed as bugbear — “bug + bear”
  9. suffixed as bugbearish — “bugbear + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bugbear

    Resembling or characteristic of a bugbear; terrifying; frightful.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bugbearish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA