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scare-bug

scare-bug is the alternative form of scarebug.

Meaning of scarebug

Noun

scarebug (plural scarebugs)

  1. (obsolete) A bugbear; an imaginary monster to frighten children.
    • Is hell but a name and word, a scarebug for to keep fools in awe?1862, Samuel Ward, Sermons and treatises, page 60

Forms of scare-bug

pluralscare-bugs

Questions about scare-bug

What is scare-bug the alternative form of?
Scare-bug is the alternative form of scarebug.

Words near scare-bug in the dictionary

  1. scare up
  2. scare-babe
  3. scare-babes
  4. scare-beggar
  5. scare-beggars
  6. scare-bug
  7. scare-bugs
  8. scare-crow
  9. scare-crowed
  10. scare-crowing
  11. scare-crows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scare-bug (page history and authors); scarebug (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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