Associations to the word «Scarecrow»

SCARECROW, noun. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.

SCARECROW, noun. (figuratively) (pejorative) A tall, thin, awkward person.

SCARECROW, noun. (figurative) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.

SCARECROW, noun. A person clad in rags and tatters.

SCARECROW, noun. (UK) (dialect) A bird, the black tern.

SCARECROW, verb. (transitive) To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.

SCARECROW, noun. An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.