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scarebabe

scarebabe 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 scarebabe

pluralscarebabes

Questions about scarebabe

What is scarebabe the alternative form of?
Scarebabe is the alternative form of scare-babe.

Words near scarebabe in the dictionary

  1. scare-sleep
  2. scare-sleeps
  3. scare-the-birds
  4. scareability
  5. scareable
  6. scarebabe
  7. scarebabes
  8. scarebug
  9. scarebugs
  10. scarecrow
  11. scarecrowed

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