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9 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
originThe noun is derived from scare (“to frighten, startle, terrify”) + crow (“bird of the genus Corvus”). The word displaced other terms such as bogle (now dialectal, dated), sewel or shewel, and shoy-hoy (perhaps imitative of the cry of crows). The verb is derived from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- crowers 12
- scarcer 11
- cowers 11
- crower 11
- escrow 11
- sowcar 11
- arcsec 10
- corsac 10
- scarce 10
- soccer 10
- cower 10
- craws 10