scare-beggar

noun

A scarecrow.

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Meanings

nounscare-beggar (plural scare-beggars)

plural scare-beggars

  1. obsoleteA scarecrow.

    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.

    1696, Judith Drake, An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, 4th edition, London: S. Butler, published 1721, pages 29–30

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
gallybaggerscarecrow

Origin

From scare + beggar.

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