scare-beggar
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
scare-beggar (plural scare-beggars)
- (obsolete) A scarecrow.
- 1696, Judith Drake, An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, 4th edition, London: S. Butler, published 1721, pages 29–30:
- He is the Terror of all the Deer and Poultry-Stealers in the Neighbourhood, and is ſo implacable a Perſecutor of Pochers[sic], that he keeps a Regiſter of all the Dogs and Guns in the Hundred, and is the Scare-Beggar of the Pariſh.
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:scarecrow