scarecrow

• اسم يُطلق على ما يُصنع على هيئة إنسان من قش أو قماش أو خشب ويُنصب في الحقول لطرد الطيور وإخافتها حماية للمزروعات. وقد يُستعمل مجازًا لوصف شخص يلبس ملابس غريبة أو رثّة أو هيئة مريبة.

A noun referring to an effigy, typically made of old clothes and straw, set up in a field to scare birds away from crops or seeds.

1. Bird-scaring effigyA2formal

   A figure made to look like a person, often dressed in old clothes, placed in fields to frighten birds away from crops.

   فزاعة

   • The farmer put a scarecrow in the middle of the cornfield.
   • Crows usually avoid fields with a scarecrow.
   • The old scarecrow was made from a wooden frame and a straw hat.

   المرادفاتbird-scarerscarerstraw manstrawman