n. 1 a human figure dressed in old clothes and set up in a field to scare birds away. 2 colloq. a badly-dressed, grotesque-looking, or very thin person. 3 archaic an object of baseless fear.
SCARECROW
Meaning of SCARECROW in English
Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012