scarecrow
To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).
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In the field beyond was a local fete. Local arts and goods bring sold. Classic games like coconut shay and splat the rat were set up and of course, the scarecrow competition wherever people made unique and fub scarecr…
We are back as the scarecrow of the lamppost. #skycoyl
Rain on the Scarecrow - John Mellencamp When I was FIVE I walked the fence while Grandpa held my hand…
"maww! come quick! we done tried to give the scarecrow the 'Orville Redenbacher' and accidentally brought it to life!"
The Lion would like a word with the marketing department. If he’s always the Cowardly Lion, why aren’t his companions ever the Brainless Scarecrow and the Heartless Tin Man?
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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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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.
“We are back as the scarecrow of the lamppost. #skycoyl”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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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):
“In the field beyond was a local fete. Local arts and goods bring sold. Classic games like coconut shay and splat the rat were set up and of course, the scarecrow competition wherever people made unique and fub scarecrows to be judged”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Rain on the Scarecrow - John Mellencamp When I was FIVE I walked the fence while Grandpa held my hand…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"maww! come quick! we done tried to give the scarecrow the 'Orville Redenbacher' and accidentally brought it to life!"”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The Lion would like a word with the marketing department. If he’s always the Cowardly Lion, why aren’t his companions ever the Brainless Scarecrow and the Heartless Tin Man?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The only canonically white villains in the Nolan Batman trilogy are the Joker (Irish*) and Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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