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scarbabe

scarbabe is the alternative form of scare-babe.

Meaning of scare-babe

Noun

scare-babe (plural scare-babes)

  1. (archaic) Something that inspires fear but presents no real danger.
    • Let the wicked flatter themselves that all is but talk of any coming to judgment ; non aliud videre patres, aliudve nepotes aspicient; all is but terriculamenta nutricum, mere scare-babes.1862, Thomas Adams, The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses, page 7

Forms of scarbabe

pluralscarbabes

Questions about scarbabe

What is scarbabe the alternative form of?
Scarbabe is the alternative form of scare-babe.

Words near scarbabe in the dictionary

  1. Scaramouches
  2. Scaramucci
  3. Scaramuccis
  4. Scarano
  5. Scaranos
  6. scarbabe
  7. scarbabes
  8. Scarbados
  9. Scarberia
  10. Scarberian
  11. Scarberians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scarbabe (page history and authors); scare-babe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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