Definitions
an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
Word origin
The noun is derived from scare (“to frighten, startle, terrify”) + crow (“bird of the genus Corvus”). The word displaced other terms such as bogle (now dialectal, dated), sewel or shewel, and shoy-hoy (perhaps imitative of the cry of crows).
Used in a sentence
“VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv, / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]”
“[W]e ſet him [the Devil] up like a Scare-Crovv to fright Children and old VVomen, to fill up old Stories, make Songs and Ballads, and in a VVord, carry on the lovv priz'd Buffoonry of the common People; […]”
“Priapus was frequently represented sculpturally, as a kind of scarecrow among the fields and even as a protection over graveyards.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Field figure”9 letters
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