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Definition scarecrow
Etymology
From scare + crow from 1530s. Replaced original shewel from Middle English sheweles, from an unattested Old English form composed of sc?n + -els (sc?ewels). Compare Middle Low German sch?welse and Middle High German schiusel. More at shy.
Noun
scarecrow (plural scarecrows)
- An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A tall, thin, awkward person.
- (figuratively) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.
- A person clad in rags and tatters.
- (Britain, dialectal) A bird, the black tern.
Verb
scarecrow (third-person singular simple present scarecrows, present participle scarecrowing, simple past and past participle scarecrowed)
- (transitive) To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.
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