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scary | sc |

As an adjective scary

is causing or able to cause fright.

As a noun scary

is barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

scary

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(er)
  • Causing or able to cause fright
    • The tiger's jaws were scary.
    She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
  • (US, colloquial, dated) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
    • (Whittier)
  • * 1916 , Texas Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (issues 47-57), page 150:
    • And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.
    Synonyms
    * (causing fright) frightening

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal English .

    Noun

  • Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

    • Anagrams

    * *

    sc

    Translingual

    Symbol

    (head)
  • South Carolina, a state of the United States of America.
  • The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Seychelles.
  • Santa Catarina, a state of Brazil.
    • ISO 3166-1 ----