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.
Priapus was frequently represented sculpturally, as a kind of scarecrow among the fields and even as a protection over graveyards.
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(by extension, derogatory) A person or animal regarded as resembling a scarecrow (sense 1) in some way; especially, a tall, thin, awkward person; or a person wearing ragged and tattered clothes.
(tall, thin person):
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To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).
It felt as though the house could keep disgorging debris forever, a tidal wave of unmatched slippers and dresses scarecrowed on hangers, and after sifting through it all we would still know nothing.
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