scarecrown.

Brit.

/ˈskɛːkrəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈskɛ(ə)rˌkroʊ/

Forms: 1500s scarre-crowe, skar-crowe, 1500s–1600s scarrecrow, scarcrow(e, 1600s skar-crow, 1600s– scarecrow (formerly often written with hyphen).

Etymology: < scare v. + crow n.¹

1. A person employed in scaring birds.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > person employed to scare birds

scarecrow1553

shoy-hoy1819

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 47 b Plaie as young boyes or scarre crowes do, whiche showte in the open and plaine feldes at all aventures hittie missie.

1908 E. C. Palmer in Daily Mail 11 Apr. 6/5 He is not ashamed of being a scarecrow.

a. A device for frightening birds from growing crops, usually a figure of a man dressed in old and ragged clothes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > bird-scarer

scarlec1440

scare1530

blencher1531

shail1531

fray-boggard1535

crow-keeper1562

malkinc1565

clacket1594

scarecrow1606

clap-mill1613

field keeper1620

shaw-fowl1621

bean-shatter1639

clapper1660

dudman1670

clack1678

hobidy-booby?1710

worricow1711

cherry-clapper1763

flay-crake1788

potato-bogle1815

cherry-clack1824

feather-piea1825

flay-crow1824

gally-baggar1825

gally-crow1825

bogle1830

tatie-bogle1838

shewel1888

scare-string1889

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > scarecrow or device for scaring birds

buga1425

scarlec1440

scare1530

blencher1531

shail1531

fray-boggard1535

malkinc1565

clacket1594

bogle-bo1603

scarecrow1606

blinks1611

clap-mill1613

shaw-fowl1621

dudman1670

hobidy-booby?1710

cherry-clapper1763

flay-crake1788

potato-bogle1815

cherry-clack1824

feather-piea1825

flay-crow1824

gally-baggar1825

gally-crow1825

bogle1830

deadman1839

hodmandod1881

scarer1930

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. H4 Let me be hangd vp sunning in the ayre, And made a scar-crow.

1637 T. Heywood Royall King iii. ii Wots thou who's returnd, The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a scarre-crow.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. iii. 222 We set him [sc. the Devil] up like a Scare-Crow to fright Children and old Women.

1762 Lloyd Nightingale in Poet. Wks. (1774) 96 Critics, who like the scarecrows stand Upon the poet's common land.

1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 170 Can you..Frighten the blind with scarecrows?

1887 W. Besant World Went xx No scarecrow in the fields ever had such clothes.

b. figurative. Something (not really formidable) that frightens or is intended to frighten: a ‘bogy’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > [noun] > one who or that which inspires fear > something fit only to frighten a baby

fear-babea1586

scarecrow1589

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Theses Martinianæ D ij All the bishops of England are too weake to deale with a scarre-crowe, that hath but the name of reuerend Martin written vppon it.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. vi. 21 Here, sayd they, is the Terror of the French, The Scar-Crow that affrights our Children so.

1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 1 Heresie and Schisme as they are commonly used, are two Theologicall scar crows.

1686 T. Brown To Ld. Chancellor in Wks. (1708) III. iii. 99 So grisly Comets from the Dunghils rise, Those upstart Scare-crows of the wond'ring Skies.

1746 J. Wesley Princ. Methodist farther Explain'd 23 I should wonder if the Scarecrow of sinless Perfection was not brought in some way or other.

1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 653/2 That idle scarecrow,—the Bribery Act.

1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. iv. 89 What a scarecrow to a blushing curate that stiff old lady..must have been.

c. Military slang. Used in the war of 1939–45, to designate weapons or manœuvres which had a purely deterrent effect (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > deterrent

human shield1885

scarecrow1943

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > a particular species of weapon > deterrent

scarecrow1943

1943 ‘T. Dudley-Gordon’ Coastal Command iv. 41 This was the squadron..which flew the Scarecrow Control... No one knows how many times a U-Boat captain was forced to keep submerged because a Tiger Moth, which might be dangerous, was doing a scarecrow on him.

1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock ii. 41 Two daylight attacks on Solingen... Gigantic blobs of oily smoke hung in the sky... It was their first experience of the German terror weapon, the scarecrow.

1966 L. Miall Richard Dimbleby, Broadcaster 39 A great gush of flame and smoke showed the bursting of a ‘scarecrow’, the oddity designed by the Germans to simulate a heavy bomber being shot down, and so to put any of our less experienced pilots off their stroke.

3. A person whose appearance causes ridicule; a lean, gaunt figure; one who resembles a scarecrow in his dress, ‘a guy’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > person

mammet1461

scarecrow1590

antic1597

fright1751

figure1774

jigger1825

guy1836

flibbertigibbet1878

worricow1894

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having

staffc1405

notomy1487

rakea1529

crag1542

scrag1542

sneakbill1546

starveling1546

slim1548

ghost1590

bald-rib1598

bare-bone1598

bow-case1599

atomy1600

sneaksbill1602

thin-gut1602

anatomya1616

sharg1623

skeleton1630

raw-bone1635

living skeleton1650

strammel1706

scarecrow1711

rickle of bones1729

shargar1754

squeeze-crab1785

rack of bones1804

thread-paper1824

bag of bones1838

dry-bones1845

skinnymalink1870

hairpin1879

slim jim1889

skinny1907

underweight1910

asthenic1925

ectomorph1940

skinny-malinky1957

matchstick1959

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. O7^v Thereat the Scarcrow wexed wondrous prowd.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. ii. 38 No eye hath seene such skarcrowes .

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. iv. 148 in Wks. II A true Souldier..runnes those vertuous hazards, that this Scarre-crow Cannot endure to heare of.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 50 You never saw such a Scarcrow as he makes him.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 9. ¶2 In Opposition to this Society [of Fat-men], there sprung up another composed of Scare-Crows and Skeletons.

1749 G. Berkeley Word to Wise in Wks. (1871) III. 441 People well fed, and well clad, instead of famished, ragged scarecrows.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby viii. 69 In front of the schoolmaster's desk, half-a-dozen scarecrows, out at knees and elbows.

1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 289 A grim and ugly scarecrow, on whom every buffoon may break his jest.

1881 W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy ii. 26 I was sorry to see a fine young man throw himself away upon such an old scarecrow.

1932 E. Muspratt Wild Oats v. 96 He was a great gaunt scarecrow, bent and crippled by disease.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 169 Thin people inspire almost as many names and jokes as fat people, but..the names..are merely descriptive, as:..scarecrow, scraggy, skin and bones.

†4. An alleged name of the Black Tern, Hydrochelidon nigra, and of the Hooded Crow, Corvus cornix. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > other types of tern > childonias nigra (black tern)

stern1609

scarecrow1676

black tern1678

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus cornix (hooded crow)

hooded crow?a1513

Royston crow1611

pied crow1648

scarecrow1676

grey crow1715

hoodie1789

Harry Denchman18..

hoodie-crow1816

bunting crow1831

Norway crow1848

saddleback1864

greyback1884

Kentish crow1893

sparrow-duck1895

1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 269 Larus niger Gesneri... The Scar-crow.

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Crow—Hooded Provincial. Dun-Crow. Scare-Crow.

5. attributive quasi-adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [adjective] > scaring

scarecrow1602

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > of disreputable appearance

diabolical1752

scarecrow1761

villainous-looking1777

diabolic1789

scarecrowy1862

scarecrowish1892

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. vi. 498 Hang him,..That when the cloud of his inuention breakes, Cannot out-cracke the scarr-crow thunderbolt.

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A3^v The greatest burden in the world is superstition; not onely of Ceremonies in the Church, but of imaginary and scarcrow sins at home.

1667 A. Cowley To Royal Soc. iii, in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. sig. B^v The Orchard's open now, and free; Bacon has broke the Scar-crow Deitie.

1761 J. Wesley Jrnl. 19 Feb. (1827) III. 40 Many may forget my scarecrow name.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott VI. 68 He was a scarecrow figure—attired much in the fashion of the strugglers.

1894 J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. Recoll. II. xxv. 223 Wearing a scarecrow hat..in his rural walks.

Derivatives

ˈscarecrowish adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > of disreputable appearance

diabolical1752

scarecrow1761

villainous-looking1777

diabolic1789

scarecrowy1862

scarecrowish1892

1892 M. North Recoll. Happy Life I. 94 I found his worship in an extra scarcecrowish costume.

ˈscarecrowy adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > of disreputable appearance

diabolical1752

scarecrow1761

villainous-looking1777

diabolic1789

scarecrowy1862

scarecrowish1892

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 277 All through the ‘Liber’ the figures are admirable, except the larger ones in the home pastoral scenes, and they are rather weak, sketchy and scarecrowy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scarecrow
释义	scarecrown. Brit. /ˈskɛːkrəʊ/, U.S. /ˈskɛ(ə)rˌkroʊ/ Forms: 1500s scarre-crowe, skar-crowe, 1500s–1600s scarrecrow, scarcrow(e, 1600s skar-crow, 1600s– scarecrow (formerly often written with hyphen). Etymology: < scare v. + crow n.¹ 1. A person employed in scaring birds. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > person employed to scare birds scarecrow1553 shoy-hoy1819 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 47 b Plaie as young boyes or scarre crowes do, whiche showte in the open and plaine feldes at all aventures hittie missie. 1908 E. C. Palmer in Daily Mail 11 Apr. 6/5 He is not ashamed of being a scarecrow. 2. a. A device for frightening birds from growing crops, usually a figure of a man dressed in old and ragged clothes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > bird-scarer scarlec1440 scare1530 blencher1531 shail1531 fray-boggard1535 crow-keeper1562 malkinc1565 clacket1594 scarecrow1606 clap-mill1613 field keeper1620 shaw-fowl1621 bean-shatter1639 clapper1660 dudman1670 clack1678 hobidy-booby?1710 worricow1711 cherry-clapper1763 flay-crake1788 potato-bogle1815 cherry-clack1824 feather-piea1825 flay-crow1824 gally-baggar1825 gally-crow1825 bogle1830 tatie-bogle1838 shewel1888 scare-string1889 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > scarecrow or device for scaring birds buga1425 scarlec1440 scare1530 blencher1531 shail1531 fray-boggard1535 malkinc1565 clacket1594 bogle-bo1603 scarecrow1606 blinks1611 clap-mill1613 shaw-fowl1621 dudman1670 hobidy-booby?1710 cherry-clapper1763 flay-crake1788 potato-bogle1815 cherry-clack1824 feather-piea1825 flay-crow1824 gally-baggar1825 gally-crow1825 bogle1830 deadman1839 hodmandod1881 scarer1930 1606 No-body & Some-body sig. H4 Let me be hangd vp sunning in the ayre, And made a scar-crow. 1637 T. Heywood Royall King iii. ii Wots thou who's returnd, The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a scarre-crow. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. iii. 222 We set him [sc. the Devil] up like a Scare-Crow to fright Children and old Women. 1762 Lloyd Nightingale in Poet. Wks. (1774) 96 Critics, who like the scarecrows stand Upon the poet's common land. 1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 170 Can you..Frighten the blind with scarecrows? 1887 W. Besant World Went xx No scarecrow in the fields ever had such clothes. b. figurative. Something (not really formidable) that frightens or is intended to frighten: a ‘bogy’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > [noun] > one who or that which inspires fear > something fit only to frighten a baby fear-babea1586 scarecrow1589 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Theses Martinianæ D ij All the bishops of England are too weake to deale with a scarre-crowe, that hath but the name of reuerend Martin written vppon it. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. vi. 21 Here, sayd they, is the Terror of the French, The Scar-Crow that affrights our Children so. View more context for this quotation 1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 1 Heresie and Schisme as they are commonly used, are two Theologicall scar crows. 1686 T. Brown To Ld. Chancellor in Wks. (1708) III. iii. 99 So grisly Comets from the Dunghils rise, Those upstart Scare-crows of the wond'ring Skies. 1746 J. Wesley Princ. Methodist farther Explain'd 23 I should wonder if the Scarecrow of sinless Perfection was not brought in some way or other. 1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 653/2 That idle scarecrow,—the Bribery Act. 1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. iv. 89 What a scarecrow to a blushing curate that stiff old lady..must have been. c. Military slang. Used in the war of 1939–45, to designate weapons or manœuvres which had a purely deterrent effect (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > deterrent human shield1885 scarecrow1943 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > a particular species of weapon > deterrent scarecrow1943 1943 ‘T. Dudley-Gordon’ Coastal Command iv. 41 This was the squadron..which flew the Scarecrow Control... No one knows how many times a U-Boat captain was forced to keep submerged because a Tiger Moth, which might be dangerous, was doing a scarecrow on him. 1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock ii. 41 Two daylight attacks on Solingen... Gigantic blobs of oily smoke hung in the sky... It was their first experience of the German terror weapon, the scarecrow. 1966 L. Miall Richard Dimbleby, Broadcaster 39 A great gush of flame and smoke showed the bursting of a ‘scarecrow’, the oddity designed by the Germans to simulate a heavy bomber being shot down, and so to put any of our less experienced pilots off their stroke. 3. A person whose appearance causes ridicule; a lean, gaunt figure; one who resembles a scarecrow in his dress, ‘a guy’. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > person mammet1461 scarecrow1590 antic1597 fright1751 figure1774 jigger1825 guy1836 flibbertigibbet1878 worricow1894 the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having staffc1405 notomy1487 rakea1529 crag1542 scrag1542 sneakbill1546 starveling1546 slim1548 ghost1590 bald-rib1598 bare-bone1598 bow-case1599 atomy1600 sneaksbill1602 thin-gut1602 anatomya1616 sharg1623 skeleton1630 raw-bone1635 living skeleton1650 strammel1706 scarecrow1711 rickle of bones1729 shargar1754 squeeze-crab1785 rack of bones1804 thread-paper1824 bag of bones1838 dry-bones1845 skinnymalink1870 hairpin1879 slim jim1889 skinny1907 underweight1910 asthenic1925 ectomorph1940 skinny-malinky1957 matchstick1959 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. O7^v Thereat the Scarcrow wexed wondrous prowd. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. ii. 38 No eye hath seene such skarcrowes . View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. iv. 148 in Wks. II A true Souldier..runnes those vertuous hazards, that this Scarre-crow Cannot endure to heare of. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 50 You never saw such a Scarcrow as he makes him. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 9. ¶2 In Opposition to this Society [of Fat-men], there sprung up another composed of Scare-Crows and Skeletons. 1749 G. Berkeley Word to Wise in Wks. (1871) III. 441 People well fed, and well clad, instead of famished, ragged scarecrows. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby viii. 69 In front of the schoolmaster's desk, half-a-dozen scarecrows, out at knees and elbows. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 289 A grim and ugly scarecrow, on whom every buffoon may break his jest. 1881 W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy ii. 26 I was sorry to see a fine young man throw himself away upon such an old scarecrow. 1932 E. Muspratt Wild Oats v. 96 He was a great gaunt scarecrow, bent and crippled by disease. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 169 Thin people inspire almost as many names and jokes as fat people, but..the names..are merely descriptive, as:..scarecrow, scraggy, skin and bones. †4. An alleged name of the Black Tern, Hydrochelidon nigra, and of the Hooded Crow, Corvus cornix. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > other types of tern > childonias nigra (black tern) stern1609 scarecrow1676 black tern1678 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Corvus > corvus cornix (hooded crow) hooded crow?a1513 Royston crow1611 pied crow1648 scarecrow1676 grey crow1715 hoodie1789 Harry Denchman18.. hoodie-crow1816 bunting crow1831 Norway crow1848 saddleback1864 greyback1884 Kentish crow1893 sparrow-duck1895 1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 269 Larus niger Gesneri... The Scar-crow. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Crow—Hooded Provincial. Dun-Crow. Scare-Crow. 5. attributive quasi-adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [adjective] > scaring scarecrow1602 the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > of disreputable appearance diabolical1752 scarecrow1761 villainous-looking1777 diabolic1789 scarecrowy1862 scarecrowish1892 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. vi. 498 Hang him,..That when the cloud of his inuention breakes, Cannot out-cracke the scarr-crow thunderbolt. 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A3^v The greatest burden in the world is superstition; not onely of Ceremonies in the Church, but of imaginary and scarcrow sins at home. 1667 A. Cowley To Royal Soc. iii, in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. sig. B^v The Orchard's open now, and free; Bacon has broke the Scar-crow Deitie. 1761 J. Wesley Jrnl. 19 Feb. (1827) III. 40 Many may forget my scarecrow name. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott VI. 68 He was a scarecrow figure—attired much in the fashion of the strugglers. 1894 J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. Recoll. II. xxv. 223 Wearing a scarecrow hat..in his rural walks. Derivatives ˈscarecrowish adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > of disreputable appearance diabolical1752 scarecrow1761 villainous-looking1777 diabolic1789 scarecrowy1862 scarecrowish1892 1892 M. North Recoll. Happy Life I. 94 I found his worship in an extra scarcecrowish costume. ˈscarecrowy adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > of disreputable appearance diabolical1752 scarecrow1761 villainous-looking1777 diabolic1789 scarecrowy1862 scarecrowish1892 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 277 All through the ‘Liber’ the figures are admirable, except the larger ones in the home pastoral scenes, and they are rather weak, sketchy and scarecrowy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarecrowv. Brit. /ˈskɛːkrəʊ/, U.S. /ˈskɛ(ə)rˌkraʊ/ Forms: Also 1500s scarrecrow. Etymology: < scarecrow n. †1. transitive. To frighten, as with a scarecrow. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > cause physical symptoms [verb (transitive)] > frighten away > scare (as with a scarecrow) scarecrow1593 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 69 That old acquaintance,..is neither lullabied with thy sweete Papp, nor scarre-crowed with thy sower hatchet. 1675 T. Duffett Mock-tempest v. i. 42 Yea, I will scare-crow thee, I will top and scourge thee. 2. To dot and disfigure as scarecrows do. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > disfigure [verb (transitive)] loathly?c1225 defacec1374 disfigurec1374 emblemishc1384 defoula1387 unhighta1387 disray1431 deform?c1450 foul?c1450 deflower1486 defeata1492 unbeauty1495 deflourisha1513 disform?1520 ungarnish1530 disfashiona1535 disfavour1535 disgrace1549 unbeautify1570 uglify1576 disbeautify1577 dishonest1581 disshape1583 disornament1593 disadorn1598 undeck1598 disvisage1603 unfair1609 untrim1609 debellish1610 disfair1628 discomplexion1640 devenustate1653 disfeature1659 monkeyfy1707 ugly1740 defeature1792 dedecorate1804 scarecrow1853 nastify1873 1853 Fraser's Mag. 48 471 Yet wilder specimens of the human race..here and there scare-crow the broad, sadly picturesque expanse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1553v.1593
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scarecrown.

Derivatives

scarecrowv.