scarecrow

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Sir,"--Miss Gabriel turned to the Lord Proprietor--"this petty insult of the scarecrow is the smallest part of our complaint against Major Vigoureux.

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  1. noun A crude image or effigy of a person set up in a field to scare birds away from growing crops.
  2. noun Something frightening but not dangerous.
  3. noun A gaunt or haggard person.

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  • The intruder looked about as substantial as a scarecrow, and he wasn't even armed The angel struck first, something Teroh had never seen before. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
  • It will boldly make its nest in the hat of a scarecrow, which is intended to frighten birds away. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • I wish to be known as a living man, and not as a scarecrow which is dressed up in my clothes. —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
  • Sir,"--Miss Gabriel turned to the Lord Proprietor--"this petty insult of the scarecrow is the smallest part of our complaint against Major Vigoureux. —  Major Vigoureux
  • And Rowsley says I look like a scarecrow, and even Val's been telling me to put my hair up Put your hair up, my child? —  Nightfall
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Early modern English also scarcrow, skarcrowe; from scare, v., + obj. crow.
  2. Cf. scart and crow.
 

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