<span class="searchmatch">scare</span>-<span class="searchmatch">the</span>-<span class="searchmatch">birds</span> A scarecrow. 1934, Stella Gibbons, Bassett: Miss Padsoe looked very fragile and old, more like a <span class="searchmatch">scare</span>-<span class="searchmatch">the</span>-<span class="searchmatch">birds</span> than a woman as she carefully...
used as "<span class="searchmatch">scares</span>" for either <span class="searchmatch">birds</span> of prey or snakes, or both. fright jump-<span class="searchmatch">scare</span> jump <span class="searchmatch">scare</span> lavender <span class="searchmatch">scare</span> red <span class="searchmatch">scare</span> scarebug <span class="searchmatch">scare</span> campaign <span class="searchmatch">scare</span> chord scarehead...
crow <span class="searchmatch">scarer</span> (plural crow <span class="searchmatch">scarers</span>) A farmhand employed to <span class="searchmatch">scare</span> <span class="searchmatch">birds</span> from <span class="searchmatch">the</span> fields. 2004, Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labour, page 89: For...
From <span class="searchmatch">scare</span> + -er. <span class="searchmatch">scarer</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">scarers</span>) One who, or that which, <span class="searchmatch">scares</span>. 1894, William Crooke, An Introduction to <span class="searchmatch">the</span> Popular Religion and Folklore of...
through <span class="searchmatch">the</span> desolate region of malaria, wild buffaloes, wild <span class="searchmatch">birds</span>, and yet wilder specimens of <span class="searchmatch">the</span> human race, which here and there <span class="searchmatch">scare</span>-crow <span class="searchmatch">the</span> broad...
fugleskremsla or fugleskremslene) a scarecrow (an effigy made to <span class="searchmatch">scare</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">birds</span> away) “fugleskremsel” in <span class="searchmatch">The</span> Bokmål Dictionary. Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an...
pu.vɑ̃.taj/ épouvantail m (plural épouvantails) scarecrow (effigy to <span class="searchmatch">scare</span> <span class="searchmatch">birds</span>) (figurative) scarecrow, bogeyman (something terrifying but not necessarily...
Times[1]: <span class="searchmatch">The</span> site also includes a number of sculpturelike apparatuses for <span class="searchmatch">scaring</span> off <span class="searchmatch">birds</span>, <span class="searchmatch">the</span> result — according to what Mr. Hautekiet said <span class="searchmatch">the</span> archaeologists...
From fugl (“<span class="searchmatch">bird</span>”) + hræða (“to <span class="searchmatch">scare</span>”). IPA(key): /ˈfʏklaˌr̥aiːða/ Rhymes: -aiːða fuglahræða f (genitive singular fuglahræðu, nominative plural fuglahræður)...
Verb-object compound, composed of espanta (“to <span class="searchmatch">scare</span>”) + ocells (“<span class="searchmatch">birds</span>”). IPA(key): (Central) [əsˌpan.tə.uˈseʎs] IPA(key): (Balearic) [əsˌpan.tə.oˈseʎs]...