"scare-bug" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "scare-bug (plural scare-bugs)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative form of scarebug"
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  "word": "scare-bug"
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      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
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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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of scarebug"
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  "word": "scare-bug"
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