2syllables
scarecrow
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Definitions ofscarecrow
1noun
- 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.
- A tall, thin, awkward person.
- Anything that appears terrifying but presents no danger.
- A person clad in rags and tatters.
- A bird, the black tern.
1verb
- To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.
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