Synonyms for scarecrow

Grammar : Noun

Spell : skair-kroh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈskɛərˌkroʊ

Top 10 synonyms for scarecrow

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Définition 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

Example sentences :

“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

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