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▪ I. † ˈscare-bug, n. Obs.
Also 6 scare-bugge, 7 scarbug, scarbugg(e, skar-bugg.
[f. scare n.2 + bug n.1]
= bugbear.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cxciv. 1204 All those which nowadayes doe name themselues Bishops and Prelates, are but scarebugs set vp by the diuell. 1601Dent Pathw. Heaven (1603) 345 For sinne is no scar-bugge. 1618S. Ward Jethro's Justice 18 These complements without the substance are but empty gulls and scarbuggs of maiestie. 1642D. Rogers Naaman 536 Haue made his solemne Commands, idle scare-bugs, and haue turned them into shadowes. 1657Trapp Comm. Ps. lii. 5 Think not that these things are spoken on in terrorem, for a Scarebug, for they shall all be surely fulfilled upon thee.
attrib.1616Manifest. Abp. of Spalato's Motives 5 Surely (in the scare-bug feares, which from my tender yeeres haue possessed mee) I haue held them detestable.
▪ II. † ˈscare-bug, v. Obs.
Also 6 scarrebugge.
[f. prec.]
trans. To frighten with idle terrors.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. I. 1 b, Now thinkest thou that I..can be scare-bugd with the plague? 1596― Saffron Walden 134 She..scarrebugges me with a Comedie, which shee hath scrawld and scribeld vp against mee. |