| anglais > français | |
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| scarecrow | |
| 1. n. Épouvantail. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
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| scarecrow | |
| 1. n. 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. n. (figuratively, pejorative) A tall, thin, awkward person. | |
| 3. n. (figurative) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger. | |
| 4. n. A person clad in rags and tatters. | |
| 5. n. (dialect) A bird, the black tern. | |
| 6. v. To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow. | |
| français > anglais | |
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| épouvantail | |
| 1. n-m. scarecrow (effigy to scare birds) | |
| 2. n-m. (figurative) scarecrow, bogeyman (something terrifying but not necessarily dangerous) | |
