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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anything terrifying; a bugbear. See
bug .
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yarb commented on the word scarebug
Now thinkest thou that I who so oft haue escapd such a number of hellish dangers, only depending on the turning of a few pricks, can be scarebugd with the plague? what plague canst thou name worse than I haue had?
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010