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† fear-babe Obs.
Also 7 erron. fairybabe.
[f. fear v. + babe.]
A thing fit only to frighten a baby. Cf. scarebabe.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 299 As for their shewes & words, they are but feare babes. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. ii. ii, All the bugbeares of the night, and terrors and fairybabes of tombes..are before their eyes. |