单词 | scare-bug |
释义 | † scare-bugn. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † scare-bugv. 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). < n.1583v.1594 |
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