"scare-bug" meaning in All languages combined

See scare-bug on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: scare-bugs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} scare-bug (plural scare-bugs)
  1. Alternative form of scarebug Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: scarebug
    Sense id: en-scare-bug-en-noun-awnSF3PX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1851, Charles Elliott, John Hannah, Delineation of Roman Catholicism, page 353:",
          "text": "Thus this godly martyr derided long since this Popish scare-bug of purgatory fire, making it inferior to the Bishop's prison.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, America - Volume 22, page 351:",
          "text": "Bitten by the Bolsheviki scare-bug, the country at large seems to have gone mad, but in proposing to convert the Bolsheviki by teaching them English, whether they will or no, Senator Kenyon has plumbed a depth of fatuity almost incredible.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Kerby Mae Robinson, Give 'n Go, page 56:",
          "text": "There were countless stories over the years about how she would scream at the least little scare-bugs, someone saying boo, fake puke or someone just walking up behind her—and scream.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1851, Charles Elliott, John Hannah, Delineation of Roman Catholicism, page 353:",
          "text": "Thus this godly martyr derided long since this Popish scare-bug of purgatory fire, making it inferior to the Bishop's prison.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1920, America - Volume 22, page 351:",
          "text": "Bitten by the Bolsheviki scare-bug, the country at large seems to have gone mad, but in proposing to convert the Bolsheviki by teaching them English, whether they will or no, Senator Kenyon has plumbed a depth of fatuity almost incredible.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2010, Kerby Mae Robinson, Give 'n Go, page 56:",
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