0 a particular thing that annoys or upsets you:
Smoking is a particular bugbear of his.
Here he is referring to one of his two great bugbears, the other being representational acting.
It avoids the tired and over-worked villainization of the aristocracy - but only to replace it with the alternative bugbear of urban exploitation.
However, this usage is by now such a bugbear to traditionalists that it is best avoided on grounds of civility, if not logic.
One of the great bugbears of the empirical analysis of national government formation is that there are not many national governments to analyse.
It will presumably allow faster exposures to solve the main problem outlined above, and also more manipulation of contrast in light levels - the other great bugbear in photographing interiors.
Etymologically, it is first cousin to 'boggle', 'bugbear', 'bugaboo' and 'bug'.
The weight of vehicles on the flight deck must add considerably to the top weight, which is the bugbear of all naval constructors.
Delay has been a bugbear of the new town from its inception.
