Obs. Also 7 erron. fairybabe. [f. FEAR v. + BABE.] A thing fit only to frighten a baby. Cf. SCAREBABE.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 299. As for their shewes & words, they are but feare babes.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. iii. II. ii. Dead mens bones, hobgoblins, ghosts are euer in their minds, and meet them still in euery turne, all the bugbeares of the night, and terrors and fairybabes of tombes and graues are before their eyes, and in their thoughts, as to woemen and children if they be in the darke alone.
