Uttal

  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈskɛə.krəʊ/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈsker.kroʊ/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈskɛr.kroʊ/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.korkuluk

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.
  2. (figuratively, pejorative) A tall, thin, awkward person.
  3. (figurative) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.
  4. A person clad in rags and tatters.
  5. (UK, dialect) A bird, the black tern.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.

Exempel

  • A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. — Dryden.
  • No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. — Shakespeare.
  • [...] his small frame seeming scarecrowed in the over-large black coat.
  • An arctic wind whooshes down Columbus Avenue like the IRT express, catching her bags, scarecrowing her arms, and threatening to take her broad-brimmed hat downtown.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipscarecrowed
Imperfektscarecrowed
Presensparticipscarecrowing
Pluralscarecrows
Tredje person singular indicativ presensscarecrows

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