† scarbot(e Obs.—0
Also scharabot.
[Aphetic a. F. escarbot, in OF. also escharbot(e, f. L. scarabæus with Fr. dim. suffix -ot. (Cf., however, late OE. scearn-budda, shorn-bud, dung-beetle, which, or some equivalent continental form, may have influenced the Fr. word.)]
A beetle.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 442/2 Scarbot [Winchester MS. scarbote], flye, scabo. 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 609/47 Scarabo, anc⊇ a scharabot (et anc⊇ a bytylle). |