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单词 scare-bug
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scare-bugn.

Forms: Also 1500s scare-bugge, 1600s scarbug, scarbugg(e, skar-bugg.
Etymology: < scare n.2 + bug n.1
Obsolete.
= bugbear n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary)
buga1425
buggart1440
gay horse1483
bogle?1507
chimera?1521
bog1527
terriculament1548
bugbear1552
bull-bear1561
hag1563
boggard1574
scare-bug1583
bull-beggar1584
kill-cow fray1589
poker1598
bug-boy1601
bogle-bo1603
mormo1605
mock-beggar1611
mormolukee1624
Tom Poker1673
raw-head1678
hobgoblin1709
bugaboo1733
Tom Po1744
spectre1774
bogy-man1862
bogy1865
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxciv. 1204 All those which nowadayes doe name themselues Bishops and Prelates, are but scarebugs set vp by the diuell.
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 381 For sinne is no scarrebugge.
1618 S. Ward Iethro's Iustice of Peace 18 These complements without the substance are but empty gulls and scarbuggs of maiestie.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 536 Haue made his solemne Commands, idle scare-bugs, and haue turned them into shadowes.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms lii. 5 Think not that these things are spoken on in terrorem, for a Scarebug, for they shall all be surely fulfilled upon thee.
attributive.1616 Manifest. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

scare-bugv.

Forms: Also 1500s scarrebugge.
Etymology: < scare-bug n.
Obsolete.
transitive. To frighten with idle terrors.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > terrify [verb (transitive)] > frighten with idle terrors
scare-bug1594
bugbear1644
terriculament1645
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K4 Now thinkest thou that I..can be scare-bugd with the plague?
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. R4 v She..scarrebugges me with a Comedie, which shee hath scrawld and scribeld vp against mee.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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