How to pronounce “scarecrow”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there. [from 1530s]
• (by extension, derogatory) A person or animal regarded as resembling a scarecrow (sense 1) in some way; especially, a tall, thin, awkward person; or a person wearing ragged and tattered clothes.
• (dated) Synonym of crow scarer (“a farmhand employed to scare birds from the fields”).
• (figuratively)
• (British, dialectal, obsolete)
• [Verb]
• To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).
• To frighten or terrify (someone or something), as if using a scarecrow.
• (archaic) To spoil the appearance of (something, such as the landscape or a view), as scarecrows may be regarded as doing.

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