Thesaurus:scarecrow
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.