1. scarecrow - Noun
2. scarecrow - Verb
Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
A person clad in rags and tatters.
The black tern.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly. L. Frank Baum
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. Angela Carter
The Scarecrow was now the ruler of the Emerald City, and although he was not a Wizard the people were proud of him. "For," they said, "there is not another city in all the world that is ruled by a stuffed man." And, so far as they knew, they were quite right. L. Frank Baum
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror. William Shakespeare
Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln. Richard Paul Evans
I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow. Shannon Hale