Associations to the word «Scarecrow»

Wiktionary

SCARECROW, noun. 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.
SCARECROW, noun. (figuratively) (pejorative) A tall, thin, awkward person.
SCARECROW, noun. (figurative) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.
SCARECROW, noun. A person clad in rags and tatters.
SCARECROW, noun. (UK) (dialect) A bird, the black tern.
SCARECROW, verb. (transitive) To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.

Dictionary definition

SCARECROW, noun. An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King