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scare-babe

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • He hath a burlie frame, and scare-babe visage; he shall do wel enoughe in such charge, though lackyng the use of four fingers.

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No curated loop yet for scare-babe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA