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scare-the-birds en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A scarecrow.
    • A black wooden toy windmill on a stick meant for a scare-the-birds was warped and immovable. 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 22:
    • Miss Padsoe looked very fragile and old, more like a scare-the-birds than a woman as she carefully wrapped a mothy old bit of fur round her thin neck, and Miss Baker wondered if she ought to come out in this bitter cold, and said as much. 1934, Stella Gibbons, Bassett: