Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SCARECROW

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Definitions of SCARECROW

1. To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).
2. To frighten or terrify (someone or something), as if using a scarecrow.
3. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there. [from 1530s]
4. (by extension, derogatory) A person regarded as resembling a scarecrow (sense 1) in some way; especially, a tall, thin, awkward person; or a person wearing ragged and tattered clothes.
5. (dated) Synonym of crow scarer
6. (figuratively)
7. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete)
8. (archaic) To spoil the appearance of (something, such as the landscape or a view), as scarecrows may be regarded as doing.

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