Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a scarecrow.

Etymologies

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scarecrow +‎ -like

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Examples

  • There were rumors of hermits who at night became blood-supping bats, and of scarecrowlike women who could become wind.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • There were rumors of hermits who at night became blood-supping bats, and of scarecrowlike women who could become wind.

    Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999

  • 'Ahí!' the Magister wailed; and his perturbation had in it something comic and scarecrowlike, as if a wind shook him from within.

    The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906

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