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/skˈærkroʊ/ Listen

noun

Scarecrow n.

Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. "A scarecrow set to frighten fools away."

A person clad in rags and tatters. "No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat."

(Zool.) The black tern. (Prov. Eng.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scarecrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... brazen scarecrow,—what's your meaning?' retorted Quilp. 'Why do you talk to me of combining together? Do I combine? Do I know anything ...

— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens

... on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... afternoon in throwing stones at a scarecrow. His aim was fairly good, and he succeeded in knocking off the hat and finally prostrating the wooden framework. Followed—an exciting chase ...

— More William • Richmal Crompton

... altogether. She was absolutely unattainable to me, for Heaven knows I didn't want the real Lisa Fitch—"real" meaning, of course, the one who was real to me. I suppose in the end Carter's Lisa Fitch was as real as the skinny scarecrow ...

— The Point of View • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

... public eye, like a succession of cinematograph pictures. It did not occur to Stephen that he was an object of pity, but he felt that through his own folly and that of another, he had become a kind of scarecrow, a figure of fun: and because until now the world had laughed with instead of at him, he would rather have faced a shower of bullets than a ripple ...

— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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