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a hay-stuffed bouncer hired to terrify birds who eventually learn it never moves
means A figure dressed in old clothes and set up in a field to frighten birds away from crops.
from A plain compound that does exactly what it says: "scare" plus "crow," the crow being the archetypal crop-thieving bird. It appears in English from around the 1500s, when scaring crows from sown fields was real, daily work. Tellingly, the same word once meant a person hired for the job — a living scarecrow trudging the rows — before it settled onto the stuffed dummy that took over the night shift for free.
- crows
- Smart enough to recognize and ignore them within days
- ancient gig
- Egyptians used wooden frames against quail 3,000 years ago
- oz fame
- Wanted a brain, gave the best advice anyway
- japanese name
- Called kakashi, meaning something that smells awful
- upgrade
- Modern fields now deploy propane cannons and lasers instead
worzel gummidge — british tv character who became sentient scarecrow in 1979 children's series
batman villain scarecrow — dr. jonathan crane uses fear toxin, first appeared in dc comics 1941