scare-bug
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of scarebug.
Example Sentences
- "Thus this godly martyr derided long since this Popish scare-bug of purgatory fire, making it inferior to the Bishop's prison."
- "Bitten by the Bolsheviki scare-bug, the country at large seems to have gone mad, but in proposing to convert the Bolsheviki by teaching them English, whether they will or no, Senator Kenyon has plumbed a depth of fatuity almost incredible."
- "There were countless stories over the years about how she would scream at the least little scare-bugs, someone saying boo, fake puke or someone just walking up behind her—and scream."