scarecrow
Pronunciation: /ˈskɛːkrəʊ/
noun
- an object made to resemble a human figure, set up to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing.
- informal a person who is very badly dressed, odd-looking, or thin: a gaunt little scarecrow in threadbare workhouse clothes she has reduced herself to a scarecrow
- archaic an object of baseless fear.