- any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear.
- a persistent problem or source of annoyance.
- a goblin that eats up naughty children.
- a thing that causes obsessive fear or anxiety
- (in English folklore) a goblin said to eat naughty children and thought to be in the form of a bear
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