"scarebug" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "scare",
        "3": "bug"
      },
      "expansion": "scare + bug",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "scare + bug",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scarebugs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "scarebug (plural scarebugs)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Samuel Ward, Sermons and treatises, page 60",
          "text": "Is hell but a name and word, a scarebug for to keep fools in awe?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Israel Zangwill, The Next Religion: A Play in Three Acts, page 50",
          "text": "You can't fright me with your scarebugs. I'm going to be cremated. That's real ashes to ashes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Edmund Peyton Lowe, American Principles, page 88",
          "text": "The argument is a mere scarebug of the opposition.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, T. B. Cunha, Goa's Freedom Struggle: Selected Writings of T. B. Cunha, page 87",
          "text": "As for painting, we have the portraits of Viceroys exhibited in the Government Council Hall, monstrous scarebugs made in series which may serve to terrorise our councillors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bugbear; an imaginary monster to frighten children."
      ],
      "id": "en-scarebug-en-noun-i2K3mu5d",
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        [
          "bugbear",
          "bugbear"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A bugbear; an imaginary monster to frighten children."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "scare-bug"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scarebug"
}

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    {
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "scare + bug",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scarebugs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "scarebug (plural scarebugs)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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          "ref": "1862, Samuel Ward, Sermons and treatises, page 60",
          "text": "Is hell but a name and word, a scarebug for to keep fools in awe?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Israel Zangwill, The Next Religion: A Play in Three Acts, page 50",
          "text": "You can't fright me with your scarebugs. I'm going to be cremated. That's real ashes to ashes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Edmund Peyton Lowe, American Principles, page 88",
          "text": "The argument is a mere scarebug of the opposition.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, T. B. Cunha, Goa's Freedom Struggle: Selected Writings of T. B. Cunha, page 87",
          "text": "As for painting, we have the portraits of Viceroys exhibited in the Government Council Hall, monstrous scarebugs made in series which may serve to terrorise our councillors.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A bugbear; an imaginary monster to frighten children."
      ],
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        [
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          "bugbear"
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      ],
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        "(obsolete) A bugbear; an imaginary monster to frighten children."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "scare-bug"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scarebug"
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