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Narrator: Today's word is "Scarecrow" — noun, pronounced /ˈskeəkrəʊ/, with the stress on "scare".
Narrator: A scarecrow is a figure made to look like a person, placed in fields to frighten birds away from crops.
Narrator: In plain English, it is a pretend farmer that scares birds.
Narrator: It joins scare with crow.
Narrator: A common collocation is "scarecrow festival", which describes village scarecrow competitions.
Narrator: It differs from "effigy", because an effigy represents a real person, often for protest.
Narrator: In a second sense, a very thin, scruffy person is jokingly called a scarecrow.
Narrator: Farming, festivals, fiction and film all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a scarecrow guards the crops.
Speaker A: Who's that standing in the cornfield?
Speaker B: A SCARECROW! It joins scare and crow.
Speaker A: Does it work?
Speaker B: The crows are unconvinced.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The village holds a scarecrow festival", events. "The Scarecrow wanted a brain", The Wizard of Oz. "Old scarecrow clothes", farming.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Write it as one word, "scarecrow".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Effigy is its cousin, dummy its twin, and bird scarer an alternative — yet scarecrow keeps its rustic charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "scarecrow" in AI prompts — useful for community events and children's crafts.
Speaker A: How for events?
Speaker B: Competition rules.
Prompt: Write rules and prize categories for a village scarecrow trail.
Speaker A: And crafts?
Speaker B: Make one.
Prompt: Give step-by-step instructions for making a scarecrow with children.
Speaker A: Could it help mapping?
Speaker B: Yes, for trails.
Prompt: Create a map page listing each scarecrow on the trail with photos.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Stories.
Prompt: Write a short bedtime story about a friendly scarecrow who befriends a crow.
Scarecrow — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary