Scarecrow
['skeəkrəʊ]
Definition
(noun.) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.
Checked by Alden--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
(n.) A person clad in rags and tatters.
(n.) The black tern.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
An operator who repeatedly corners corn, without caws.
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Examples
- This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As to what I dare, I'm a old bird now, as has dared all manner of traps since first he was fledged, and I'm not afeerd to perch upon a scarecrow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They painted Virgins enough, and popes enough and saintly scarecrows enough, to people Paradise, almost, and these things are all they did paint. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Michel