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| A '''bugbear''' is a fairy creature comparable to the [[bogeyman]], [[bogey]], bugaboo, [[hobgoblin]] and other creatures of folklore. According to Webster's Dictionary, a bugbear is "an imaginary [[goblin]] or spectre used to excite fear", "an object or source of dread" or "a continuing source of irritation". "Bugbear" is also another term for scarecrow.
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| In a modern context, the term serves as a metaphor for something which is annoying or irritating.
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| ==Popular culture==
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| *In the role-playing game ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', bugbears are bipedal creatures that resemble small bears. Confusingly, actual bears are known as 'bars' (mimicking the speech of rednecks) and one used to be able to encounter a bugbar, which was 'meant' to be a bar but supposedly turned into a bugbar due to a software bug (breaking the fourth wall in the process).
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| *Bugbear is also the name of a monster in the Nintendo DS]game Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. In the game it is portrayed as a levitating eyeball with a long tail and a pair of spikes coming out of either end of the eyeball. The spikes and the tail both generate electricity.
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| *In the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' role-playing game, a '''bugbear''' is a massive humanoid distantly related to goblins and [[Hobgoblin (Dungeons & Dragons)|hobgoblins]]. Named for the bugbear of legend, the bugbears of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' are goblinoid creatures, larger and stronger than hobgoblins. They speak Goblin. For a bugbear character, give plus 4 to strength, a plus 2 to dexterity, a plus 2 to constitution, and a minus 2 to charisma.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Sprite]]
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| *[[Wirry-cow]]
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| [[Category:Goblins]]
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