scarecrow

• Substantif désignant une figure, généralement faite de vieux vêtements et de paille, placée dans les champs pour effrayer les oiseaux et les éloigner des cultures ou des semences.

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.

   Épouvantail

   • 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.

   Synonymesbird-scarerscarerstraw manstrawman