scarecrow
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- noun
- /ˈskɛrˌkroʊ/
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espantapájaros
- The scarecrow stood tall, its old clothes rustling gently in the wind as it watched over the cornfield.
One of the hearts is a stop sign, another a scarecrow still left out from Halloween.
- One of the hearts is a stop sign, another a scarecrow still left out from Halloween.
- So they go and they start tearing away the coverings of the scarecrow and what is found.
- They'd put me in the yard and birds would land on me be like, Dang, is he a scarecrow?
- And there were, you know, scarecrows and other things that were supposed to be kind of spooky and scary, you know, placed in in different spots.
- Others move in peeing scarecrows, arms held out from their bodies, forearms, hands dangling, dangling.
Examples
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During the harvest festival, children enjoyed making their own scarecrows to decorate the garden.
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Tied to each post was a scarecrow, a human-sized corn-husk doll.
Fiction book (1995) -
Number one: the scarecrow outside.
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I can make a scarecrow.
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I'm here to build a better scarecrow.
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Now, you see, Billy here likes to build scarecrows.
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A breeze blew up and flapped the skirts of the scarecrow out in the garden.
Fiction book (1997) -
Behind a glass window lay a display of plastic pumpkins, corn, and a scarecrow nailed to a steel pole.
Fiction book (1997) -
Mr. McRay leaned on his cane and remembered the scarecrow in his attic.
Fiction book (1997) -
The farmer placed a scarecrow in the field to keep the crows away from the crops.
Synonyms
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7.6
A figure made of straw placed in fields to scare birds away
A thing like a human figure placed in fields to frighten birds from crops
A thing that people put in fields to keep birds away from crops
A figure made of straw and old clothes used to scare birds from crops
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Etymology
Scarecrow comes from the simple parts scare ('to frighten') and crow ('a bird'), so it means 'something that frightens crows'. That's why a scarecrow is a human-shaped figure put in fields to keep birds away.