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scarebugs

scarebugs is the plural 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

Questions about scarebugs

What is scarebugs the plural of?
Scarebugs is the plural of scarebug.

Words near scarebugs in the dictionary

  1. scareability
  2. scareable
  3. scarebabe
  4. scarebabes
  5. scarebug
  6. scarebugs
  7. scarecrow
  8. scarecrowed
  9. scarecrowing
  10. scarecrowish
  11. scarecrowlike

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