Vocabulary : Bugaboo to Bugle
Bugaboo : Alt. of Bugbear
Bugbane : A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.
Bugbear : Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. ;; Same as Bugaboo. ;; Causing needless fright. ;; To alarm with idle phantoms.
Bugfish : The menhaden.
Bugger : One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite. ;; A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.
Buggery : Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
Buggies : of Buggy
Bugginess : The state of being infested with bugs.
Buggy : Infested or abounding with bugs. ;; A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle. ;; A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
Bugle : A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. ;; A horn used by hunters. ;; A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle. ;; An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black. ;; Jet black. ;; A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
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