0 a particular thing that annoys or upsets you: --
Smoking is a particular bugbear of his.
The real bugbear for local authorities is the possibility of endless delay and procrastination on the part of "hot" landlords.
The fraction would he a bugbear to trade, services and transport.
The question of maximum or minimum harmonisation is still a bugbear and naturally voices have been raised in disagreement.
Between 1920 and 1947 the problem of compensation and betterment was the bugbear in the history of planning.
I must add that the burden of regulation is now one of the biggest bugbears of rural businesses and charitable bodies.
The biggest bugbear to many private soldiers is the possibility of being accosted by a military policeman.
Surely, in these days of modern and sympathetic administration, too much is made of the bugbear of a means test.
Delay has been a bugbear of the new town from its inception.
