Definition of Scarehead

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarehead

scarecrows
scared
scared as hell
scared stiff
scared to death
scareder
scaredest
scaredly
scaredy-cat
scaredy-cats
scaredy cat
scaredy cats
scarefire
scarefires
scarehead (current term)
scareheads
scaremonger
scaremongered
scaremongerer
scaremongerers
scaremongering
scaremongers
scarer
scarers
scares
scareware
scarey
scarf
scarf bandage

Literary usage of Scarehead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Frontiersman by Roger Pocock (1903)
"Formulating a new scheme on the way, I called on the Editor of the scarehead. " Spokane," said I, " is giving an Exposition.—Give me a horse, ..."

2. A Frontiersman by Roger S. Pocock (1904)
"Formulating a new scheme on the way, I called on the Editor of the scarehead. " Spokane," said I, " is giving an Exposition.—Give me a horse, ..."

3. The Bookman (1907)
"... runs eagerly after the scarehead story, the blue journalist follows with eager scent any wrong—or right—in the scheme of the wholesome universe that he ..."

4. Collected Essays and Reviews by William James (1920)
"Helen's age is that of the scarehead and portrait bespattered newspaper. In Laura's time the papers were featureless, and the public found as much zest ..."

5. The Leveller Movement: A Study in the History and Political Theory of the by Theodore Calvin Pease (1916)
"This only procured the commitment of the five, and supplied the news basis for an " extra'' whose scarehead promised a'' Bloody Independent Plot .... to ..."

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