The word "scarecrow" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a decorative figure made of straw, usually dressed in old clothes, that is placed in a field to frighten away birds and other animals from eating the crops. For example, "In the middle of the farmer's field was a tall scarecrow, ragged clothes blowing in the wind."
So they never got to ask about the party's Wizard of Oz election strategy, which consists of telling voters they would add heart to a Tory tin man government, or a brain to a Labour scarecrow one.
Kayhan called US policy "war-seeking" and described Obama as a "scarecrow" who was in no position to make an agreement.
The MDA insists that it tells Mr Bush what is feasible, and that when he authorised deployment last December he was acting on its advice.Shield or scarecrow?Missile defence is certainly a cause as dear to Mr Bush's party as it is anathema to many Democrats.
As they were wandering down the yellow brick road, Dorothy asked the scarecrow to tell her a story.
At first, he was thought to be a scarecrow.
IN THE streets of El Alto, Bolivia's poorest and fastest-growing city, scarecrow dummies hang grotesquely from lampposts with ropes around their necks as a macabre warning to potential thieves and criminals.
GE is promoting the smart grid with ads that show a scarecrow singing "If I only had a brain" from "The Wizard of Oz" while bouncing along an old power line.
Although bird strikes caused no civilian deaths in America last year, that country's Federal Aviation Administration estimates that they cost its airline industry $385m.The days when people thought that this sort of thing could be stopped with a scarecrow and a few firecrackers are long gone.
Sophisticated urban society tended to regard him with ribald amusement, but in the country he was adopted as a god of gardens, his statue serving as a combined scarecrow and guardian deity.
Another interesting, if elemental, type of puppet, the "scarecrow puppets," or lileki, of Slovenia, is constructed from two crossed sticks draped with old clothes; two of these figures are held up on either side of a bench draped with a cloth, under which the manipulator lies.
His Daocaoren (1923; The Scarecrow) and Gudai yingxiong de shixiang (1931; The Stone Statue of an Ancient Hero) are both notable works in Chinese children's literature.
