scarecrow
an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
anything frightening but not really dangerous.
a person in ragged clothes.
an extremely thin person.
Origin of scarecrow
1Other words from scarecrow
- scarecrowish, scarecrowy, adjective
Words Nearby scarecrow
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How to use scarecrow in a sentence
On the way, he shoulder-checks a scarecrow hung crooked on its post.
What’s the fun in fear? Science explores the appeal of scary movies | Maria Temming | October 27, 2022 | Science News For StudentsThey dream of a human scarecrow, by far the movie’s most horrifying image, and of that set of silver choppers.
In The Cursed, Werewolf-Type Beasts Put a Greedy Landowner in His Place | Stephanie Zacharek | February 17, 2022 | TimeThese include setting up electric fences, training a guard animal like a dog to warn you of any intruding bears, rigging motion-sensing strobe lights to go off when they detect a bear, placing scarecrows around your property, and many more.
How to keep fat bears (and other bears) out of your trash | Natalie Wallington | September 29, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe idea is that the mere presence of police should prevent people from committing crimes — a sort of scarecrow effect.
Murders are spiking. Police should be part of the solution. | German Lopez | September 27, 2021 | VoxYou should look like a scarecrow on the yellow-brick road, but you should also be warm by the time you are done.
How to build snowshoes on the fly—and 4 other tips for surviving deep snow | By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life | January 5, 2021 | Popular-Science
It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art | Alec Kubas-Meyer | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThere, the beloved characters would emerge: the Cowardly Lion singing about courage and the scarecrow dancing with the crows.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road…to North Carolina | Nina Strochlic | February 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was rumored that Howard Stern would play scarecrow and Madonna would play Harley Quinn.
The 11 Worst Sequel Ideas to Come out of Hollywood | Chancellor Agard | November 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere's no Judy Garland songs, no scarecrow, no Tin Man, no Cowardly Lion.
What Critics Are Saying About ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’ | Marlow Stern | March 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHis size 22 feet splayed out in front of him, he resembles an oversize version of the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.
It is at best but a worn-out scarecrow shaking its vain rags in the wind.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockFor as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing, so are their gods of wood, and of silver, and laid over with gold.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various"Silly," said Jehosophat, for he was older than Marmaduke and knew Mr. scarecrow very well.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonWoot watched this operation with much interest, for the scarecrow's body was only a suit of clothes filled with straw.
The Tin Woodman of Oz | L. Frank BaumThe scarecrow's head was a gunnysack filled with bran, on which the eyes, nose and mouth had been painted.
The Tin Woodman of Oz | L. Frank Baum
British Dictionary definitions for scarecrow
/ (ˈskɛəˌkrəʊ) /
an object, usually in the shape of a man, made out of sticks and old clothes to scare birds away from crops
a person or thing that appears frightening but is not actually harmful
informal
an untidy-looking person
a very thin person
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