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- n. Anything terrifying; a bugbear. See bug.
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yarb Now thinkest thou that I who so oft haue escapd such a number of hellish dangers, only depending on the turning of a few pricks, can be scarebugd with the plague? what plague canst thou name worse than I haue had?
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594 Apr 14, 2010