scare-the-birds

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scare-the-birds

  1. A scarecrow.
    • 1934, Stella Gibbons, Bassett:
      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.
    • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 22:
      A black wooden toy windmill on a stick meant for a scare-the-birds was warped and immovable.