scarecrow

scarecrow englannista suomeksi

1. variksenpelätin

0. Substantiivi

1. linnunpelätin, linnunpelätti, variksenpelätin, variksenpelätti

2. variksenpelätin

3. pelottelutaktiikka

3. Verbi

4. saada näyttämään jäykältä">saada näyttämään jäykältä

5. häiritä

scarecrow englanniksi

1. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating crops or seeds planted there. (defdate)

(synonyms)

2. (RQ:Heywood Royall King)

3. (RQ:Defoe Devil)

4. (RQ:Besant World)

5. A person regarded as resembling a scarecrow ''(sense 1)'' in some way; especially, a tall, thin, awkward person; or a person wearing ragged and tattered clothes.

(sense) (synonyms)

6. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

7. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1)

8. (RQ:Jonson Staple of News)

9. (RQ:Spectator)

10. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)

11. (RQ:Dickens Nicholas Nickleby)

12. (synonym of)

14. Anything that appears terrifying but presents no danger; a tiger.

15. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-1)

16. (RQ:Milton Divorce)

17. (RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works)

18. (quote-journal)

19. Military equipment or tactics used to scare and deter rather than cause actual damage.

20. The tern ((taxfmt)).

21. The crow ((taxfmt)).

22. To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow ''(noun sense 1)''.

23. (quote-book)

24. To splay (one's arms) away from the body, like the arms of a scarecrow.

25. (quote-book) trembling in the garden of his lost innocence, (w) on Sinai, Jahweh creating the heavens and the earth; (..)

26. To frighten or terrify (someone or something), as if using a scarecrow.

27. (RQ:Harvey Pierces Supererogation) is neither lullabied with thy sweete Papp, nor ſcarre-crowed with thy ſower hatchet.

28. (quote-journal)|month=June|year=1849|volume=XII|issue=141|page=164|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JO7HbNVi4B0C&pg=PA164|column=1|oclc=1038142909|passage=It has been said of Mr. Welby Pugin that he patronises bad drawing, and now we perceive that he patronises very queer perspective, and very bad colouring also; (..) Could we fancy that the mode of representation adopted by the latter Pugin were so with the intention of scarecrowing people away from those drawings, there might be some policy in it; (..)

29. (quote-book)|year=1858|page=99|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVhCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA99|oclc=887878299|passage=Who is this ugly young man with large feet, scarecrowing the pretty birds from my crops?

30. (quote-book)|year=1884|page=42|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qd0CAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA42|oclc=70515418|passage=We weren't doing any harm, only going into the fields, and making ourselves scarecrows to the birds. (..) Then when I went scarecrowing with the big ones, she'd mother would lead me a terrible life when I got back, threatening to turn me out.

31. To spoil the appearance of (something, such as the landscape or a view), as scarecrows may be regarded as doing.

32. (quote-journal)|month=October|year=1853|volume=XLVIII|issue=CCLXXXVI|section=footnote *|page=471|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BpNEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA471|oclc=173347075|passage=Fatigued and hungry as our party were after a long drive through the desolate region of malaria, wild buffaloes, wild birds, and yet wilder specimens of the human race, which here and there scare-crow the broad, sadly picturesque expanse between the last cork-trees near Salerno, and the treeless vicinage of the temple of Neptune, we dared not venture upon fish with green bones,—the only dish served up for our repast; (..) we all preferred bearing our hunger, and traversing a second time the fiery plain unrefreshed, to breaking our fast upon such suspicious diet; (..)