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bugaboo
1740, probably an alteration of
bugbear
(see
bug
), but connected by Chapman with
Bugibu,
demon in the O.Fr. poem
"Aliscans"
from 1141, which is perhaps of Celtic origin (cf. Cornish
bucca-boo,
from
bucca
"bogle, goblin").
