Thesaurus:scarecrow
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: an effigy used to deter birds from eating seeds or crops[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- crow scarer
- crowkeeper (obsolete)
- frayboggard (obsolete)
- gallicrow (British dialect)
- gallybagger (British dialect)
- malkin (archaic, now dialect)
- mammet
- potato-bogle (Scotland, archaic)
- scare-beggar (obsolete)
- scare-the-birds
- scarecrow
Hyponyms[edit]
- moggy (UK regional)
- scare-bullfinch
- scaregoose
- straw man
Hypernyms[edit]
- artifact [⇒ thesaurus]
- effigy
- object of fear
Various[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “859. hopelessness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “scarecrow” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.