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Antonyms for scarecrow
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : skair-kroh |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈskɛərˌkroʊ |
Definition of scarecrow
Origin :- 1550s, from scare (v.) + crow (n.). Earliest reference is to a person employed to scare birds. Meaning "device of straw and cloth in grotesque resemblance of a man, set up in a grain field or garden to frighten crows," is implied by 1580s; hence "gaunt, ridiculous person" (1590s). The older name for such a thing was shewel. Shoy-hoy apparently is another old word for a straw-stuffed scarecrow (Cobbett began using it as a political insult in 1819 and others picked it up; OED defines it as "one who scares away birds from a sown field," and says it is imitative of their cry).
- As in ragamuffin : noun person who is poor, tattered
- As in sight : noun horrifying person or thing
- As in bugaboo : noun fear
- As in fright : noun horrifying or unpleasant sight
- “I would not be seen in the street with that scarecrow,” murmured Giles.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- In the strange illumination of the search beams he seemed the wraith of a scarecrow.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- He once told my mother that he had more than once changed clothes with a scarecrow.
- Extract from : « Adventures and Recollections » by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
- It was a miserable-looking woman in clothes that might have been stolen from a scarecrow.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- Do you happen to know whatever became of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow?
- Extract from : « Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz » by L. Frank Baum
- "That is what we are trying to find out," remarked the Scarecrow.
- Extract from : « Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz » by L. Frank Baum
- Something—like a scarecrow, but not a scarecrow—swung from a limb overhanging the drive.
- Extract from : « The Plum Tree » by David Graham Phillips
- Did he deserve to be set up as this scarecrow in English story?
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 » by Various
- Then they were clustering about him at Scarecrow Charlie's, asking him his name.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1917 » by Various
- But what had he done that they should be flaunted on a scarecrow?
- Extract from : « Major Vigoureux » by A. T. Quiller-Couch
Synonyms for scarecrow
- alarm
- beggar
- blot
- bogey
- bogeyman
- bogy
- bother
- bugbear
- bullbeggar
- bum
- eyesore
- fright
- frump
- gamin
- goblin
- guttersnipe
- hobgoblin
- hobo
- loafer
- mess
- monstrosity
- nuisance
- ogre
- ogress
- orphan
- scare
- scarecrow
- slob
- spectacle
- specter
- street person
- tatterdemalion
- tramp
- ugliness
- urchin
- vagabond
- vagrant
- waif
- wastrel
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