- scare shitless
- Verb. To terrify. See 'shitless'. E.g."I was scared shitless when he jumped out at me wearing a Freddy Kruegar mask."
English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.
scare shitless
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scare — 1. verb stop it, you re scaring me Syn: frighten, startle, alarm, terrify, petrify, intimidate, terrorize, make afraid, make fearful, fill with fear, give someone a fright, panic, throw into a panic, shock, unnerve, cow; strike terror into, put … Thesaurus of popular words
scare somebody shitless — scare the ˈshit out of sb | scare sb ˈshitless idiom (taboo, slang) to frighten sb very much Main entry: ↑scareidiom … Useful english dictionary
scare the shit out of somebody — scare the ˈshit out of sb | scare sb ˈshitless idiom (taboo, slang) to frighten sb very much Main entry: ↑scareidiom … Useful english dictionary
shitless — shit|less [ˈʃıtləs] adj spoken not polite scare sb shitless to make someone feel very frightened … Dictionary of contemporary English
shitless — adjective scare sb shitless taboo, spoken to make someone feel very frightened … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
shitless — adverb Date: 1936 usually vulgar to an extreme degree used as an intensive especially with scare … New Collegiate Dictionary
fear — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Anticipation of misfortune Nouns 1. fear, fearfulness, phobia; timidity, timorousness, diffidence; solicitude, anxiety, worry, care, apprehension; apprehensiveness, misgiving, mistrust, doubt, suspicion … English dictionary for students
scared — (adj.) pp. adjective from SCARE (Cf. scare) (v.). Scared stiff first recorded 1900; scared shitless is from 1936. Scaredy cat timid person first attested 1933, in Dorothy Parker … Etymology dictionary
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