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Definition of Rawhead
1. n. A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.
Definition of Rawhead
1. a bugbear [n -S] - See also: bugbear
Medical Definition of Rawhead
1. A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones. (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rawhead
Literary usage of Rawhead
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"Hobgoblin and rawhead, were frequently cited in old-time English nurseries for
the purpose of frightening children. Made children with your tones to run ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"rawhead-and-bloody-bones, a former spectre of the nursery, inspiring as much awe
among the nurses as among their charges. Servants awe children, and keep ..."
3. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1895)
"In short it may end in a rawhead & bloody-bones in the dark. Very well. Let rawhead &
bloody bones come, & then we shall be justified in making our peace ..."
4. The Life and Times of Anne Royall by Sarah Harvey Porter (1908)
"rawhead and bloody bones! rawhead and bloody bones! Your father's a Mason.
Where's Morgan?" Since comparatively few Americans of the present generation are ..."
5. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop): Hon. Member of the Oriental Society by Anna M. Stoddart (1908)
"Near Tattenhall rises a hill known as rawhead, a name of itself sufficient to
fill a child's ... They found the rawhead gang busy hiding booty in a grave, ..."
6. New English Canaan by Thomas Morton (2000)
"... half an English farthing...a very small sum" (OED) gloss: "Notable pay" 616
rawhead... an English "bugbear" or "bogey-man" of the nursery to "awe ..."
7. New English Canaan Text & Notes by Jack Dempsey (2001)
"... like the picture of rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones, and his shirt like a [170]
pudding-wife's apron.616 ln this employment Shackles takes a great felicity, ..."
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