scare-bug

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Noun[edit]

scare-bug (plural scare-bugs)

  1. Alternative form of scarebug
    • 1851, Charles Elliott, John Hannah, Delineation of Roman Catholicism, page 353:
      Thus this godly martyr derided long since this Popish scare-bug of purgatory fire, making it inferior to the Bishop's prison.
    • 1920, America - Volume 22, page 351:
      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.
    • 2010, Kerby Mae Robinson, Give 'n Go, page 56:
      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.
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