Thesaurus:scarecrow
English
Noun
Sense: an effigy used to deter birds from eating seeds or crops
Synonyms
- 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
Hypernyms
- artifact [⇒ thesaurus]
- effigy
- object of fear
Various
Further reading
- “859. hopelessness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “scarecrow” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.